Special character encoding

[uprightdog]

I'm sure this should be easy, but for some reason it is escaping me. No pun intended.

I have the following code

header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8');
echo htmlentities('Montréal'); 

which returns

Montréal

I would like it to return

Montréal

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[logic_earth]

Since you are using UTF-8, you don't need to escape anything.
Can output it as is.

In any case you want:

htmlentities( 'Montréal', ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8' ); 

[uprightdog]

Since you are using UTF-8, you don't need to escape anything.
Can output it as is.

In any case you want:

htmlentities( 'Montréal', ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8' ); 

Thanks - that works.

However, I don't know what you mean by "you are using UTF-8, you don't need to escape anything"? If I don't encode Montréal, I get question marks in place of the special character...

[logic_earth]

You are saving the file and editing the file using UTF-8 right? The é is capable of being directly inserted into a file and displayed in a browser if both are using UTF-8 as the character set.

[uprightdog]

You are saving the file and editing the file using UTF-8 right? The é is capable of being directly inserted into a file and displayed in a browser if both are using UTF-8 as the character set.

Interesting. I just ran some tests, and I see what you are saying when it comes to static files. But, when I select 'Montréal' from a MySQl database (using PHP), I get a question mark instead of the acute e.

Any idea why this would be?

[logic_earth]

Sounds like the connection between PHP and MySQL is not sending the data as UTF-8.
http://pureform.wordpress.com/2008/0...tf-8-friendly/