characters are read wrong?

hi all,

I use $lijst = file('lijst.txt'); to read the file 'lijst.txt' line by
line. When I echo $lijst some chracters are changed.

Original file (lijst.txt)
(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena - Sandra
(Tell It All About) Boys - Dolly Dots
9 To 5 - Dolly Parton
A Brand New Day - Wiz Stars
A Love Bizarre - Sheila E.
A Walk In The Park - Nick Straker Band
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Boys Town Gang

array $lijst contains:
(Tell It All About) Boys â?" Dolly Dots
9 To 5 â?" Dolly Parton
A Brand New Day â?" Wiz Stars
A Love Bizarre â?" Sheila E.
A Walk In The Park â?" Nick Straker Band
Ainâ?Tt No Mountain High Enough â?" Boys Town Gang

the -, and ' characters are changed. Someone knwos why this is and what can
be done?

Regards
Stijn

Stijn Goris <mepisto@hotmail.com> wrote:
[orignal]
> Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Boys Town Gang

[file()]
> Ain??Tt No Mountain High Enough ??" Boys Town Gang
>
> the -, and ' characters are changed. Someone knwos why this is and what can
> be done?

How are you testing this? First line is plain old ASCII, second one
looks like UTF-8 displayed as iso8859-1.

Does the original actually include simple ' and - characters, or is your
editor playing tricks on you (much like Andy suggested in you explode
question).

Putting both the original file and the php processing it online would
really be helpfull IMHO.

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Daniel Tryba

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 15:23:57 +0200, "Stijn Goris" <mepisto@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I use $lijst = file('lijst.txt'); to read the file 'lijst.txt' line by
>line. When I echo $lijst some chracters are changed.
>
>Original file (lijst.txt)
>(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena - Sandra
>(Tell It All About) Boys - Dolly Dots
>9 To 5 - Dolly Parton
>A Brand New Day - Wiz Stars
>A Love Bizarre - Sheila E.
>A Walk In The Park - Nick Straker Band
>Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Boys Town Gang
>
>array $lijst contains:
>(Tell It All About) Boys â?" Dolly Dots
>9 To 5 â?" Dolly Parton
>A Brand New Day â?" Wiz Stars
>A Love Bizarre â?" Sheila E.
>A Walk In The Park â?" Nick Straker Band
>Ainâ?Tt No Mountain High Enough â?" Boys Town Gang
>
>the -, and ' characters are changed. Someone knwos why this is and what can
>be done?

See my reply to your other post - they're almost certainly not - and ',
they're em-dash and left- and right-quotes (a.k.a. "smart quotes"). These don't
exist in the iso8859-1 character set encoding, as commonly used on the web.

In fact, the way they're being converted into three characters looks a lot
like UTF-8, although I've not checked the character values you've posted.

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