Weird Chars in Url

PHP
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Hello,

How can i remove with php characters like this => %e2%80%93-

I have made a sitemap script for my sites and got some of these urls when i store them in a database table.

Cheers,
Kris

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That has to be an encoding error.

Perhaps these; urlencode and [URL=“http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php”]urldecode ?

Try running urldecode on the data before processing it further. Make sure that the un-encoded data is safe for the rest of your script though, so do some testing afterward.

3

well it gives another output now => out-it’s

It’s strange i get this kind of urls

4

Are your charsets consistent in your database as on your webpages?

Like, are you consistently using Unicode, or ISO-8859-1, or UTF-8 throughout, even in your database fields?

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well i see the url is stored the same in the database no unicode or utf-8. The urls are parsed from an xml parser. Maybe i can pm you the code ?

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Post up the relevant portion of the code on here inside [noparse]

[/noparse] tags.

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So you're saying that in the database the URLs look exactly as they should, but it's when you later output the stored URLs onto a webpage they're looking funny?
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Hi wizzard81.

Just following up. Have you had any luck with it since?