Charsets!

Without any experience outside of regular European / Unicode charsets,
I'm a bit stuck with a PHP app that needs to be able to handle foreign
characters.

I've got the content-type header working, but I'm not sure how to
handle the special numerical representations for characters that are
submitted by text forms under some conditions (when the charset is not
correct for the system or something)... like ★ for example.

I want PHP to convert those back into their 'real' characters. That
★ one becomes �š, for example, which is a star symbol under
Shift-JIS.

I can't find anything in the manual to help, but maybe I'm not looking
in the right place. I would appreciate any help with this, and any
ideas for places to go for general charset info, so I can master this
thing!

TIA!

In article <1430249e.0311150341.38f8727d@posting.google.com >,
google@atomz.cjb.net says...
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> I want PHP to convert those back into their 'real' characters. That
> ★ one becomes ?š, for example, which is a star symbol under
> Shift-JIS.[/color]


function convert_htmlspecialchars ($string) {
$trans_table = get_html_translation_table (HTML_SPECIALCHARS);
$trans_table = array_flip($trans_table);
return strtr($string, $trans_table);
}


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