PHP: utf-8 encode, htmlentities giving weird results

Question

I'm trying to get data from a POST form. When the user inputs "habláis", it shows up in view source as just "habláis". I want to convert this to "habláis" for purposes of string comparison, but both utf8_encode() and htmlentities() are outputting habláis, and htmlspecialchars() does nothing. I would use str_replace but it won't recognize the á when it searches the string.

I'm using a charset of utf-8 consistently across pages. Any idea what's going on?

Answer 1

You are probably not specifying UTF-8 as the character set for the htmlentities() operation.