Re: [tlug] utf form problems

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:55:28 -0800, steven smith <sjs@example.com> wrote:
> 
>> and the debug output in the browser looks like:
>>     $input = "rtk_kanji_1=%E5%8A%A9"
>>     $output = "rtk_kanji_1=%E5%8A%A9"
>> so decode_entities isn't doing anything with the string
> 
> I wouldn't expect it to because there are no HTML entities being passed
> along. Your data is simply URL-encoded.
> 
> HTML identities are those beasts of the form &hellip; and &#8454;
> 
> 
or in this case the HTML identity should look like
"rtk_kanji_1=&#x52A9;" for 'name="rtk_kanji_1" value="助"'
when it gets to the CGI script, right??   I don't need to
somehow convert "rtk_kanji_1=%E5%8A%A9" to
"rtk_kanji_1=&#x52A9;" first, right?

Thanks
Steve S.