special-characters

I have the following string... NSString *googleSearchString = @"http://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics+%22Tænder+På+Dig%22+%22Jakob+Sveistrup%22"; Notice that it has some accented characters. When I try to turn that into a url the returned url is null... [NSURL URLWithString:googleSearchString]; So normally the url works except when there are accented non-english characters in the string. Any help on how to handle that? You need to escape the special characters to make it work properly. Something like: [NSURL URLWithString:[googlSearchString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:

I have the following script: <?php $subject = "Testmail — Special Characters"; $msg = "Hi there,\n\nthis isn’t something easy.\n\nI haven’t thought that it’s that complicated!"; mail($to,$subject,$msg,$from."\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"); ?> In the e-mail: Subject: Testmail ? Special Characters Body: Hi there, this isn?t something easy. I haven?t thought that it?s that complicated! I tried a lot of things, but I have no ideas anymore. Can you help me? Did you ever got this working? THX! Did you try iconv_set_encoding ? This should work : <?php

We are designing a URL system that will specify application sections as words separated by slashes. Specifically, this is in GWT, so the relevant parts of the URL will be in the hash (which will be interpreted by a controller layer on the client-side): http://site/gwturl#section1/section2 Some sections may need additional attributes, which we'd like to specify with a : , so that the section parts of the URL are unambiguous. The code would split first on / , then on : , like this: http://site/gwturl#user:45/comments Of course, we are doing this for url-friendliness, so we'd like to make sure

My company runs MySQL in NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES mode. How can I escape a literal % or _ in a LIKE query in this mode? The standard way is \% , but that doesn't work in this mode. Example: a column has the following values: 5% off , 50% off . The following query works in standard mode but not in NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES mode: SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE mycol LIKE '5\% off' ajreal you need escape select * from mytable where mycol like '5\% off' escape '\'; For a version that works regardless of NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES mode, you can use a different character, like pipe: select * from mytable where mycol

I have the standard XAMPP installation on win7 (x64). Having had my share of encoding troubles in a past project where mysql encoding did not match with the php enconding which in turn sometimes output html in other encodings, I decided to consistently encode everything using utf-8. I'm just getting started with the html markup and am allready experiencing troubles. My page is saved using utf-8 (no BOM, I think ) //update: It turns out this was NOT the case. The file was actually saved with ISO_8859-1 . I later found this out thanks to Sherm Pendleys answer. I had to go back and change my