Re: languages and PHP

David Christopher Zentgraf wrote: > Your biggest problem will be if you accept any kind of user input > which could be in any kind of language. > Depending on your server configuration you'll probably have some > serious cleaning and filtering to do. > I often have to employ this line for example: > foreach (array_keys($_POST) as $key) $clean[$key] = > mb_convert_encoding($_POST[$key], "UTF-8"); > > Trying to make sure that you'll receive UTF-8 helps as well: > <form action="form.php" method="post" > enctype="multipart/form-data" > accept-charset="utf-8"> I work almost exclusively in UTF-8 (language irrelevant), but I've never had to do any of the above. The mb_convert_encoding() from UTF-8 to UTF-8 doesn't seem to make much sense? /Per Jessen, Zürich