Thanks for the quick reply!

As a side note, I am unaware of the Euro symbol being available within utf8. So forcing utf8 upon everyone at the level in your recommendation, is probably not a good idea.

Though...
I worked on a similar issue about 3 weeks ago, and I believe the way that was worked out was tossing in an "iconv" to the post/sig display fields, so the text is displayed on the fly using PHP 54 without touching the database. This would handle the Euro and other foreign languages. I only spent a few hours of research and havent revisited the idea yet. I'll share the common idea in this topic with you, and for anyone else who might have dropped by to review it

More reading @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconv

My testing page @ http://id242.com/woof/test-utf8.php

PHP SOURCE CODE for my testing page:
Code
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
</head>
<body>
<?php
$text = "This is the Euro symbol &#039;€&#039;.";

echo 'ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 using iconv (//TRANSLIT, //IGNORE, none qualifiers) on an HTML page with a charset=utf-8 meta tag.<br /><br />';


echo 'Original : ', $text, '<br /><br />';
echo 'TRANSLIT : ', iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8//TRANSLIT", $text), '<br />';
echo 'IGNORE   : ', iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8//IGNORE", $text), '<br />';
echo 'Plain    : ', iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $text), '<br />';
echo "<br />";
echo "& euro; or & #x20ac;  bluntly gets the job done for a str_replace -- &euro; or &#x20ac;<br />";
echo "<br /><br /><br />";


$text2 = "This is some German 'Weiß, Goldmann, Göbel, Weiss, Göthe, Goethe und Götz'.";

echo 'Original : ', $text2, '<br /><br />';
echo 'TRANSLIT : ', iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8//TRANSLIT", $text2), '<br />';
echo 'IGNORE   : ', iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8//IGNORE", $text2), '<br />';
echo 'Plain    : ', iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $text2), '<br />';
?>

Last edited by id242; 10/12/2015 7:13 AM.
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