[ILUG] PHP plus Celtic languages

[Stephen Brooks]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 11:21, kevin wrote:
> Somewhat OT but the combination computer skills plus knowledge of Gaelic on 
> this list could be just right.
> 
> I am developing an e-learning website on the Cornish language for a group 
> based at Exeter University, the site is being developed in PHP. 
> 
> Cornish uses some accents including t-cedilla in words such as 
> 
> conveţhaz - Verb, to understand
> 
> I can write this using codes in UTF-8 like conveţhaz which can be saved 
> to the MySQL database with no problems. However when I want to pass some 
> cornish words from one page to another using:
> 
> $urlcode = urlencode($cornishword);
> echo "<a href=\"scripts/popup.php?cword=$urlcode\">test</a>";
> 
> When I use the above it works fine until I hit words like conveţhaz which PHP 
> sees on the other side as conve with the rest chopped off. Any ideas?
> 
Hi Kevin,

        The problem is the & in the word you're trying to submit, it's
being
parsed as a GET seperator.  This doc page has a note on how to handle
this suggesting using &amp; instead of & as the seperator.  Then use
htmlentities(urlencode($data)) to encode your url fragment.

http://ie.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

Regards,
-- 
Stephen Brooks <stephen at lincor.com>                     17 Dame Court
Software Engineer                                   Dublin 2, Ireland
Lincor Solutions Ltd.                          Ph: +353 (0) 1 6746413