note 62555 added to function.htmlspecialchars

I had a script which detected swearing and wanted to make sure that words such as 'f ü c k' didn't slip through the system. After using htmlentities(), the following line converts most extended alphabet characters back to the standard alphabet so you can spot such problems.. $text=eregi_replace("&([a-z])[a-z0-9]{3,};", "\\\\1", $text); This changes, for example, 'ü' into 'u' and '&szlig' into 's'. Sadly it also converts '£' and '¶' into 'p' so it's not perfect but does solve a lot of the problems ---- Server IP: 216.194.113.175 Probable Submitter: 62.253.64.18 (proxied: 82.20.49.212) ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/62555 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62555/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62555/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62555/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62555/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62555/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62555/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62555 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/62555 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php