I sometimes need to find a set of records via PHP/SQL with
non-English/extended characters fed to the query via a hyperlink.
For example, I have a navigation link on a site that tries to pass the
phrase "Gesundheit und Schönheit" via http with the extended character
(ö) correctly encoded as an HTML entity (ö)
http://www.domain.com/page.php?indus...Schönheit
However "Gesundheit und Schönheit" is not passed to my variable, only
"Gesundheit und Sch". I reckon the ampersand is causing trouble.
If correctly encoding extend chars as html entities isn't working for
what I want, how can I encode them for storage in XHTML or otherwise get
the result I want?
TIA,
Sean