document.referrer is providing accented letters

Question

I'm using document.referrer for grabbing previous URL of current page and sending it to a curl file,that curl file again send this variable to a PHP file for saving it into data base. The problem is that on saving into database I'm getting URL value as accented letters like

†Ûiÿû®û(~×(›û®û(~×â•ïðŠwhÂÏڞئj­î

I've used base64 coding scheme in my php file.The collation of MySQL column is latin1_swedish_ci.

Thanks.

Answer 1

As the commenter suggests, I think this is simply a problem where the encoding of the URL isn't the same as the encoding of your database. Using utf-8 on your database tables would solve most (if not all) of your problems. Here is a two part article (part 1 and part 2) that discusses how to use utf-8 in PHP and MySQL.