Inserting special chars, title splitter

I am going to do so the webtitle <title> is stored in the db, so you can change it without editing file..

I have both the title and a title splitter..

Like this:

page.com • 

the page.com is the title and the • is the splitter开发者_JAVA技巧

Im having little issue by inserting the splitter, • into the database. I tried insert it as it is, • and by the html code •.

The first try by having • is that it turns out as ? in my varchar field, Second try by having • is that in the webtitle it shows also as • and not the actual icon/symbol.

How can i fix this and have it accept chars so they dont turn out as ? or ??

Should i use another columntype than varchar maybe?

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first, title does not allow html-entities

imho, you should store as •
and only manipulate/convert that into its original character when you outputing HTML

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• should actually do the trick. look at your final html code that loaded to the browser. may be there are some escaping characters

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That is exactly the way you should store it. I'm not sure why your browser is not displaying it. I just tested with Mozilla and it work's fine for me.

<title>&bull; <- thats a bullet</title>

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Varchar should be fine. . .

When you send your data, or gather it from your DB, are you sending it through anything like htmlspecialchars() ? Make sure you're actually sending the string, and not a stripped version of the string.