From here http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html One solution to find a word with a dashes or hyphens in is to use FULL TEXT SEARCH IN BOOLEAN MODE, and to enclose the word with the hyphen / dash in double quotes. Or from here http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=2095 There is another workaround. It was recently added to the manual: ” Modify a … Read more
Before you JSON encode, use utf8_encode() around the string.
If you really want to check for all those special characters, it’s easier to use a regular expression: var str = $(‘#Search’).val(); if(/^[a-zA-Z0-9- ]*$/.test(str) == false) { alert(‘Your search string contains illegal characters.’); } The above will only allow strings consisting entirely of characters on the ranges a-z, A-Z, 0-9, plus the hyphen an space … Read more
After much research and attempts to make things working, I finally found a solution for the problem, that is a simple addition to existing code. Solution was to use parameter “UTF-8” in the UrlEncodedFormEntity class constructor: form = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs,”UTF-8″); After this change, characters were encoded and delivered properly to the server side.
Tell grep to treat your input as fixed string using -F option. grep -F ‘*^%Q&$*&^@$&*!^@$*&^&^*&^&’ application.log Option -n is required to get the line number, grep -Fn ‘*^%Q&$*&^@$&*!^@$*&^&^*&^&’ application.log
If you want to write console batch files that use those characters, you need an editor that will save the batch file using the console’s code page. To check what that is, type: C:\>chcp Active code page: 437 This is the result for my US Windows system. Western European versions of Windows will often be … Read more
You have to make sure the content is served with the proper character set: Either send the content with a header that includes <?php header(“Content-Type: text/html; charset=[your charset]”); ?> or – if the HTTP charset headers don’t exist – insert a <META> element into the <head>: <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=[your charset]” /> Like the attribute … Read more
As I continued my research I came up with an answer for my problem, this piece of code did it! private function properText($text){ $text = mb_convert_encoding($text, “HTML-ENTITIES”, “UTF-8”); $text = preg_replace(‘~^(&([a-zA-Z0-9]);)~’,htmlentities(‘${1}’),$text); return($text); } Now all the characters (and all the new ones I’ve seen) that troubled me are displayed correctly!