Re: htmlentities is incomplete: does not cover rsquo etc

2009/3/13 Heddon's Gate Hotel <hotel@heddonsgate.co.uk>: > The string function htmlentities seems to have very incomplete coverage of > the HTML entities listed in the HTML 4 spec.  For example, it does not know > about rsquo, lsquo, rdquo, ldquo, etc.  This is confirmed by looking at the > output of get_html_translation_table, which does not list these entities. > > My impression is that it covers those HTML entities that are in ISO-8859-1, > but not the others.  Is this deliberate?  If so, the Manual is misleading > because it suggests that all HTML entities are covered. Otherwise, is this a > bug? > Well, If you specify the input charset you'll have no problem at all. ;) <?= htmlentities('string with UTF-8: ±ªÐº×N>>µ»n“¢µ€jæ', ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?> Latin1 AKA ISO-8859-1 doesn't have ldquo nor bdquo nor ndash and alike. Regards,