How to display special caracters code instead of characters ?

Those look the same…

OK, this is the problem ! Let’s use a _ character that you should ignore :

I would like to display

un &_eacute;l&_egrave;ve

as

un &_eacute;l&_egrave;ve

instead of

un élève

Is there a PHP function I can use in my plugin to do this ?

Thank you in advance,
Gilbert

I’m still not really understanding the problem. You want to display the code for those symbols instead of the symbols?

Right. How should I transform my string to display the string as it is in my database (not depending on any charset) rather than being interpretated by the browser ?

Try entering the string in the visual editor. Should display the way you want.

I do not understand. What do you mean by visual editor ? Firefox ?

Use the htmlspecialchars function:

$string = "un élève";
echo "unfiltered: $string";
echo "filtered:" . htmlspecialchars($string);

Hello vtxyzzy.

Thank you for this information ; I did not know this function.

Perfect for me. Many thanks.

Gilbert

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