MySQL-PHP and HTML entities

Hi Folks !
Please, someone help a beginner URL
I'm using a FORM/TEXTAREA to input some data to MySQL. Can I put some non 7bit character (eg "ç"(&ccedil URL, "ã"(&atilde URL, "é"(&eacute URL on DB or I need to convert to htmentities before store this ? Or I just need convert on browser display using "htmlentities()" function ?
Thanks in advance and excuse my poor english... URL

Hi

I store danish special chars in my db without any problems.

There is one 'but', tho:
If you use the db for a 'international' site it's a good idea to convert them either when you store the data or when you present them. (eg. convert Ç to & #199 ; )

Also put:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

in your header statement. The ISO8859-1 character set (Latin-1) is supported is supported by Netscape and Explorer both.

Hope this helps you

// Martin

[This message has been edited by kaasgaard (edited May 27, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by kaasgaard (edited May 27, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by kaasgaard (edited May 27, 2000).]

One piece of advice on converting. Do it before DISPLAY not before insert into the db. If you need to edit in a textbox later it'll be easier.

Hi!
I store the special characters (8bit) in DB
and convert it, using htmlentities(),
just for display. It works!

URLThanks folks
vilmar