é writes to files as É

Hi all

I am writing a simple text file with php and have run into a small prob. when writing the string:

$write_me = "née Smith";

the output text file is written as :

nÉe Smith

Any ideas why this would capitalise and how to get round it.

Cheers
Steve

Hi all

I am writing a simple text file with php and have run into a small prob. when writing the string:

$write_me = "née Smith";

the output text file is written as :

nÉe Smith

Any ideas why this would capitalise and how to get round it.

Cheers
Steve
probably you use utf-8 for output and this is iso-8859-1. Try to change encoding.

regards

Hi thanks for the reply.

How do you change the encoding in php. I'm simply using the write function to save the string to a file.

Cheers

Hi thanks for the reply.

How do you change the encoding in php. I'm simply using the write function to save the string to a file.

Cheers

<?php

$write_me = "née Smith";
echo mb_convert_encoding($write_me, "iso-8859-1", "utf-8");
echo $write_me."\n";

?>


I was wrong in my previous post, you use utf-8 and output is something else. mb_convert_encoding will fix this.

sorry, I forget:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php
regards

Cheers will give it a go today.