Re: Attempt at putting greedy htmlspecialchars on a diet

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:54:43 -0500 Eugene Lee <list-php-1@fsck.net> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:46:14PM -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: > : > : When I say that I don't know what characters Im expecting. > : Im not talking about normal html entities, like &amp; &nbsp &lt; > : Im talking about chinese/japanese/korean/taiwanese alphabet, > numbers : (even punctuation if applicable). > : Maybe Im thinking too hard, but trying to take far east languages > : alphanumeric charaters into account, > : seems like overkill. > : Feel free to correct me. > > Okay, I will. :-) > > There's two issues: input and output. > > HTML character references address the problem of displaying certain > characters on a web browser. This is an output issue. > > When you get CJKV data, you are most likely getting it in some > encoding. Different Asian languages use their own encoding sets. > For example, if you get Japanese text, it will be encoded in JIS, > Shift-JIS, EUC, or something Unicode. You *have* to determine the > type of data and its encoding. This is an input issue. Hmm... but the characters in question were already (at least in the examples used) in "something" Unicode (&#nnnnn;). So, there's really no need to know whether it's JIS, Shift-JIS, EUC, etc. ? - E - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/