Re: htmlspecialchars and UTF-8

Hi, For your interest: htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() support following codesets in 4.3.0. ISO-8859-1 (alias: ISO8859-1) ISO-8859-15 (alias: ISO8859-15) UTF-8 cp1252 (alias: Windows-1252, 1252) BIG5 (alias: 950) GB2312 (alias: 936) BIG5-HKSCS Shift_JIS (alias: SJIS, 932) EUCJP (alias: EUC-JP) Regards, Moriyoshi "a.h.s. boy" <spudlists@nothingness.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 01:37 PM, Renato De Giovanni wrote: > > > 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? > > It's probable that it's a PHP...erm..."fact of life" right now. I ran > into similar problems with iso-8859-7 and -9, using both > htmlspecialchars and htmlentities with the (optional) 3rd parameter. > Things worked unpredictably. In the PHP build I have now (4.4ish, from > recent CVS), htmlspecialchars actually prints out a PHP error message > (E_WARNING, I believe) that: > > "ISO-8859-7 is not supported by htmlspecialchars(); assuming ISO-8859-1" > > So I wouldn't be surprised if you weren't running into this problem, > which wasn't officially recognized until after 4.2 was released. Look > at bugs.php.net for related bugs...it's the only good way to keep up on > the issue, which seems to be evolving... > > Cheers, > spud. > > > > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > a.h.s. boy > spud(at)nothingness.org "as yes is to if,love is to yes" > http://www.nothingness.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >