#39404 [NEW]: Support "entitiy" as substitute_character setting

From: martin dot t dot kutschker at blackbox dot net Operating system: PHP version: 5.2.0 PHP Bug Type: mbstring related Bug description: Support "entitiy" as substitute_character setting Description: ------------ It would be great if the charset conversion could also output SGML/HTML entites for missing characters in the output charset. The option "long" is not very HTML-friendly. But with "entity" any Unicode aware browser could deal with the missing charater. eg mbstring.substitute_character=long => U+3000 mbstring.substitute_character=entity => 　 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=39404&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39404&r=mysqlcfg