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Old August 1st, 2007, 08:41 PM
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Can't get PHP/MySQL to display degree symbol or ± --- shows question mark

Is there a quick way to parse the mysql data so that degree symbols and this symbol ± shows up correctly in the display. Right now it shows those symbols as question marks (?) even though I can see them ok in the PHPMyAdmin view of the table.

I have this in my HTML/php code already:

PHP Code:
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"




Anything else I can try?

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try using the html version of the two symbols.
just remove spaces.
for degree
Code:
& d e g ; or ° & # 1 7 6 ;


for plus minus
Code:
& p l u s m n ; or ± & # 1 7 7 ;
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try using the html version of the two symbols.
just remove spaces.
for degree
Code:
& d e g ; or ° & # 1 7 6 ;


for plus minus
Code:
& p l u s m n ; or ± & # 1 7 7 ;


They are already entered in a bunch of rows & fields in the database.... so I should just do a replace on each of the fields perhaps? Is there another more global fix? I'm worried other symbols will have problems as well.

For now I can manually trap/replace these two I suppose.

And they show up ok in PHPMyAdmin... what are they doing different in their code?

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found a quick fix... just needed to add this to the top of my page:

PHP Code:
 header('Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'); 

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