Help with proper character encoding.
- by mmattax
I have a HTML form that is sometimes submitted with accented characters: à, è, ì, ò, ù
I have a PHP script that exports these form submissions into CSV format, when I look at the CSV format in a text editor (vim or notepad for example) the characters look fine, but when opened with Open Office or Word, I get some funky results: ?????
I am also passing these submission to salesforce and am getting an error: "The entity "Atilde" was referenced, but not declared."
What can I do to ensure portability of my CSV file? What's the proper way to handle the encoding?
My HTML file is content-type is set as: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Data is being stored in MySQL as latin1_swedish_ci collation.