Problem with some characters

  • Hello friends.

    I’m developing a plugin that do the same as “Hello Dolly”, but it take the input text of a plain text file in the hard drive. I’m spanish, and I use some king of characters that includes “tildes” (a little line on the top of some letters (a,e,i,o,u) and a special chracter used in spanish (e?±e, I don’nt know if you would see it in this post).

    I read the file with fread function of php, but, whein I display the result of the plugin in the sidebar of my blog, the special characters are displayed how ‘?’ … What can I do to change this and make the characters visible?

    Thanks (and excuse me for my horrible use of english)

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  • If I understand you correctly, you might need to change the encoding of the page to a character set that supports those characters. Other than that, I’m confused as hell as to what your problem is.

    Thread Starter eleka

    (@eleka)

    Theorically, the charset is apropiated to shown this special characters, because in the posts of my blog, the same characters are displayed without problems. It only occurres if I try to “print” a special character in the sidebar ..

    Note: With the latest tests I do, the problem is with the function “fread” of PHP, I think that this function don’t read properly the text file and then, the characters appears with ‘?’

    Usually these problems in the sidebar appear when the files are edited in a text editor that doesn’t support utf-8.

    Thread Starter eleka

    (@eleka)

    I’ve used the notepad of Windows … Don’t question me about I use Windows on my server, it’s a “familiy problem” lolol

    I will try with other text editor. I post soon

    Thanks!

    If it’s XP you have the option to save it as utf-8 encoded.

    Thread Starter eleka

    (@eleka)

    Very thanks to all … I’ve now tried to save the document in the Microsoft Word (I hate it), but saving it as plain text file, and Word answer me about the codification … I choose UTF-8 and now is all ok.

    Very thanks to all

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