php replacing £ with £ error :s

[uqwebdesign]

Got a bit of a strange error. I'm
using the php htmlentities command to replace parts of a string, used
it tons of times before with no problems.

Now I'm using the same char encoding and everything as usual, but it's replacing pound signs with
£

instead of just

£

Never had this before or heard of it, and had a look around on google but can't find anything. Any ideas on what's going on please?

Here's my form code

<form method="post" action="addcarpetvalid.php" enctype="multipart/form-data"> - uploading an image later on in the form

<p>Title:<br />
<input name="title" /></p>

and here's my replace line
$title=$_POST['title'];
$title = htmlentities($title, ENT_QUOTES);

[masonbarge]

I don't know what the problem is, but the first place I'd start looking is in the encoding.

[uqwebdesign]

I've removed all encoding and still get the problem, could it be anything to do with the server setup?

[hschmitz]

To me it also sounds like an encoding issue. The fact that the single £ is translated into two entities suggests that your input string might be UTF-8 encoded. Have you tried specifying UTF-8 as third parameter in htmlentities?

[uqwebdesign]

Nope, how do I do that please?

[hschmitz]

Originally Posted by uqwebdesign

Nope, how do I do that please?

By adding the string 'UTF-8' as third parameter

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htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8');

This works with PHP 4.3.0 and later.

[uqwebdesign]

Thanks alot that seems to be working now