Re: Str_replace?

Try htmlentities(), its purpose is to escape those special characters, and it should work with any language. Satyam "Ryan A" <ryan@coinpass.com> wrote in message news:000301c53ba9$7e6dbd00$2d80aa51@lp1wmxd2osbwee... > Hey, > > I am making a site primary for the Swedish audiance, Swedish alphabets are > pretty much the same as our English ones except for three extras, which > are: > (lowercase) åäö (and uppercase) ÅÄÖ > > While using dreamweaver to format some of the pages I noticed that DW > converts those letters to: > å=&aring; > ö=&ouml; > ä=&auml; > > Å=&Aring; > Ö=&Ouml; > Ä=&Auml; > > which displays fine on the html output. > > My question is, do you think I should do a str_replace() on all instances > of > user input if it matches the above 6 characters before putting it in the > mysql db...or leave it as is? > > Just writing åäöÅÄÖ normally in a html file is not giving me any problems > either...but that may because when i installed windows I installed Swedish > and English language packs.....I guess using the codes that dreamweaver > uses > would just make it easier for people to read who dont have the language > installed on their system...question is, is it worth the str_replace() > price > for a high traffic dating site? > > Thanks, > Ryan > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.4 - Release Date: 4/6/2005