Unicode not display properly (urgent)

PHP
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Hi All,

I’m new to PHP. I need a help from u. I’m generating word doc from php. The problem is characters(unicode) which I give in the input textfield is not display properly in the generated word doc.

My input is : tès©åæ÷øþësttést, but
displays in Word doc : tčs©åę÷ųžėsttést

seems lot of difference in the word doc like “è” became “č” and “øþë” became “ųžė”.

My php code is

$text = utf8_decode(htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(trim($_POST[‘imageDesc’.$i]))))

and I store the $text in the word doc.

Note: I have place meta tag in the php page like:
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />

when check in the php page(print($text)) its working fine but its not proper only in the word doc.

Please help me to solve this prob.

Thanks in advance
Guru

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Let me ask you one question.
Why do you use function utf8_decode() and what does it return?

3

If I didn’t give utf8_decode() all unicodes displays wrongly. If I use that function, some of the unicode not display as I typed but not all.

4

If I didn’t give utf8_decode() all unicodes display wrongly. But, if I use that function, some of the unicodes does not display as expected.