Re: Mystery Binary Characters in My Files

I already do an htmlentities/specialchars on input data, but some of these characters are still creeping in... is there any way, on fread(), to strip out these boolsh*t chars? On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:04:11 -0500, heinisch wrote: > At 06.04.2002 08:36, you wrote: > >>I read in the contents of an old mysql database, and made XML files out >>of the data contained in it. The total job came out to about 6800 files, >>or "Documents". >> >>I'm finding that, sporadically, when reading these XML files, and >>passing the xmldata to sablotron, I'm getting sablotron errors. These >>errors stem from characters I'm finding throughout these documents. This >>is the meat of my problem. >> >>I take a look at a file which is giving errors by using 'less'. When >>looking at the file, I'll see chars like this: <A1> or <91> or <92> >>and >>so on, and so on. The chars are hilighted in bold reverse text, >>indicating that they are 'binary'??. I'm not sure whether to call them >>binary or hex... perhaps someone can tell me how to appropriately >>address these chars... >> >>Anyhow... these chars sometimes correspond to valid characters. Such as >><A9>... this is a "copyright" char, or &amp;copy. >> >>I've been manually replacing these characters as errors are generated, >>but it's getting a little tiring. >> >>Is there anyway I can force PHP to either strip out these 'binary' >>characters, or whatever they are, when I read the file? >> >>Is there any way to keep php from saving these chars to NEW documents >>when they are created? >> >>Does anyone even know what I'm talking about?? hehe. > Seems that you work on a win*box, as a tip (don´t know if it works, as I > use LAMP) > try manual -> string functions -> > > get_html_translation_table — Returns the translation table used by > htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() htmlentities — Convert all > applicable characters to HTML entities htmlspecialchars — Convert > special characters to HTML entities > > Maybe here you´ll find something that make you happy. Otherwise, as I > learned the last two weeks on the list, ereg_replace or eregi could make > your life easier. > HTH Oliver >