Special characters for Spanish

[Brian Rogers]

This sounds like a character set or Unicode encoding difference. If you
can, normalize the two strings before comparing them.

On 9:22pm, Fri, Dec 12, 2014 Dan Healy <dfhealy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am entering Spanish characters (example: á, ñ, etc.) using the Compose
> key and writing them to a mySQL table.  I then retrieve them and compare
> them to an identical character entered into a text area on a web page.
> They appear identical on the web page, but they don't compare equal .
>
> When I enter a special character for Spanish it is rendered as more than
> one character in code but appears as one special character on the web
> page.  When I view the source code for the web page I can see the multiple
> characters for each entry and they are different.
>
> I had been using Ubuntu 12.04 and upgraded to 14.04.  The code apparently
> worked with 12.04 but does not work with 14.04.
>
> I can't tell if I have introduced a change in  my code, if there has been
> the change in the Ubuntu release, or an upgrade to Firefox, or some other
> problem.
>
> Any ideas how I might address this problem?  The code is several years old
> and has been used extensively but now fails.  I am looking for an approach
> to handling this problem.  I can provide screen shots of the code and the
> web page.  Any help would really be appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Dan H
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