Quotation marks missing when outputted to HTML?

stevemclintock · 4 Jun 2007 at 18:33

Hey folks,

I've got single & double quotation marks stored in my database and when I output them into HTML they all bring up a (?) in both Safari and Firefox :confused:

I've tried putting meta data in to say what the content type is, but that isn't working, i'm thinking it might be something else?

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

I'm using php to output the text, and have converted it using the htmlspecialchars function in order to change it all to entities, but this doesn't work either :confused:

Is there something else I should be doing?

Thanks,

Steve.

tom_e · 4 Jun 2007 at 19:22

bit of a guess here but try sticking / infront of the characters

stevemclintock · 4 Jun 2007 at 19:33

blitz2163 said:
bit of a guess here but try sticking / infront of the characters

yep, that works, how come?

psyr33n · 4 Jun 2007 at 20:27

Escaping?

toString · 4 Jun 2007 at 20:30

echo '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />';

That will work.

tom_e · 4 Jun 2007 at 23:15

stevemclintock said:
yep, that works, how come?

sweet i knew id learnt something from all those lectures lol

stevemclintock · 5 Jun 2007 at 16:38

Hi again ... still having trouble with this i'm afraid.

If i manually write in echo 'quote /" test' it works fine, but what i want to do is write out from a database, so i somehow need to replace " with /" before it gets echoed.

I thought of doing a replace, but can't seem to get it working?

stevemclintock · 6 Jun 2007 at 13:51

anyone

paulsheffII · 6 Jun 2007 at 14:06

I think you mean echo htmlentities($db_output,ENT_QUOTES)