Re: Help needed with mb_convert_encoding()
| From: | Christoph Becker | Date: | Wed, 28 May 2014 12:12:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Help needed with mb_convert_encoding() | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Alain Williams wrote:
> I am trying to use this to validate input that is supposed to be UTF-8 and to
> replace any bad characters with something - '?' would do.
>
> I have the test program below. No matter what I try to give as an argument to
> mb_substitute_character() it always removes the bad input sequence, I would like
> to replace it.
Have you considered using htmlspecialchars($input, ENT_SUBSTITUTE,
'UTF-8') instead of mb_substitute_character()?
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Christoph M. Becker