Re: htmlspecialchars and UTF-8

Hi Moriyoshi, To generate a valid xml document I only need to escape five characters inside any content: &<>"' So what I really need is "htmlspecialchars", not "htmlentities". And besides the unnecessary translation of many characters, by doing so "htmlentities" produces an invalid xml document... -- Renato On 5 Dec 2002 at 4:22, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote: > Hi, > > If you want to do the full entity translation, use htmlentities() instead > of htmlspecialchars() > > http://www.php.net/htmlspecialchars > > Moriyoshi > > "Renato De Giovanni" 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.