Test string:
$s = "convert this: ";
$s .= "–, —, †, ‡, •, ≤, ≥, μ, ₪, ©, ® y ™, ⅓, ⅔, ⅛, ⅜, ⅝, ⅞, ™, Ω, ℮, ∑, ⌂, ♀, ♂ ";
$s .= "but, not convert ordinary characters to entities";
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texai
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3But what for? This shouldn't be necessary if the document is properly encoded. – Pekka Feb 25 '11 at 23:01
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@Pekka: My problem isn't render the data, my problem is store it. I can't change the db structure nor config fields. – texai Feb 25 '11 at 23:21
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1If your database can't store non-ASCII characters, you need to fix the database, not kludge your data into some ad-hoc encoded format. Keep database strings in raw form. – bobince Feb 26 '11 at 09:47
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$encoded = mb_convert_encoding($s, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8');
asssuming your input string is UTF-8, this should encode most everything into numeric entities.
Marc B
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@Marc B, You great, this is what I am looking for. much helpful – Robin Michael Poothurai May 09 '12 at 13:13
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Well htmlentities doesn't work correctly. Fortunately someone has posted code on the php website that seems to do the translation of multibyte characters properly
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I did work on decoding ascii into html coded text (&#xxxx). https://github.com/hellonearthis/ascii2web
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