using utf-8 encoding & having character issues on iso8859-1 built info pulled in

  • Hi all,

    Im pulling in a php script to feed some information from another site within my wordpress site and am displaying it on a particular page.

    Basically its a page using my wordpress template with info pulled in from another site being displayed where the normal content area would be.

    It works well but various characters within the infomation Im pulling in are messed up, mainly the “￡'” and “‘” characters.

    I figured its because my wordpress site uses utf-8 encoding and the info im pulling in from another site is built using iso-8859-1

    Can anyone please advise a method of displaying the info and characters correctly within this particular page of my site, i.e. how do I make (or force) just one page of my site to use iso-8859-1 while keeping the rest the standard utf-8.

    Is there some php code i can write around the php script im using to pull the info in or perhaps another method to force this particular page to display in iso-8859-1 .

    I’ve spent countless hours searching the net trying to fix this issue to no avail, pulling my hair out.

    Really hope some clever person can offer some assistance with this problem, this is a bit above my head.

    Any help is truly appreciated

    David:)

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  • Thread Starter daviddicks

    (@daviddicks)

    Any help, the ￡ symbols are displaying as ? and the ‘ are also displaying as ?.

    Happy to donate if someone can offer a fix.

    David

    David, it doesn’t look like anyone is interested in our similar issue. Have you found any answer along the past 6 months?

    I think the problem is caused by a PHP file saved with utf-8 BOM.
    Try to save your php files as “UTF- without BOM”.
    Notepad++ can help you with this.

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