Re: htmlspecialchars and UTF-8

Hi, If you want to do the full entity translation, use htmlentities() instead of htmlspecialchars() http://www.php.net/htmlspecialchars Moriyoshi "Renato De Giovanni" <renato@cria.org.br> wrote: > Hi, > > We're working on a program that needs to generate an xml document, utf-8 > encoded, based on information stored with another charset encoding inside a > database. > > So basically at some point we have a function that looks like: > > function encodeString($s, $encoding) > { > $s = mb_convert_encoding($s, 'UTF-8', $encoding); > > $s = htmlspecialchars($s, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'); > > return $s; > } > > What happens is that "htmlspecialchars" seems to be always returning a > latin1 string, therefore causing problems with the generated document > supposedly utf-8 encoded. > > My question is: is this a php bug or am I misunderstanding something related > to multi-byte character support? > > PHP version is 4.2.3 > > Thank you very much! > -- > Renato > CRIA - Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental > http://www.cria.org.br/ > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content and is believed to be clean. > > > -- > PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >