HTML entity of foreign characters

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hello all,

I have a webapp that I’m trying to rewrite using Yii.

There are times that I use Vietnamese characters for my input

With my webapp written from scratch, I submit Đ and it gives me Đ

This doesn’t happen with Yii

Any idea on how to make it spit out the html entity instead of the character?

Thanks

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For it to display the character correctly without the html entity, you may just need to change the character encoding. See Yii::app()->charset (seems to default to utf8) and the Content-Type meta tag in your layout file.

The way to encode them would be CHtml::encode() (which uses Yii::app()->charset).

If your charset is right and CHtml::encode() doesn’t do it, you may need to use the php htmlentities() which will escape more things than the htmlspecialchars() used by CHtml::encode().

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My apologizes. I didn’t realize that my entity got converted into its character

I want the Đ to be displayed as (without spaces)


& # 2 7 2 ;

because that is how most of the data in my database is

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I’m not entirely sure what you are trying to do, but it still sounds like the answer would be passing the data through php’s htmlentities()