[ILUG] PHP plus Celtic languages

[Kae Verens]

Stephen Brooks wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 11:21, kevin wrote:
>
>>$urlcode = urlencode($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,
>  
>
I'd recommend instead using rawurlencode()
http://ie.php.net/manual/en/function.rawurlencode.php

note:
"This is the encoding described in RFC 1738 for protecting literal 
characters from being interpreted as special URL delimiters"

Kae