note 63785 added to function.htmlentities

If you're programming multilingual systems, and have encountered the grief of using javascript 'alert()' to find that it doesn't properly display htmlentities, there's a work around that allows you to leave your strings clean. <script> var str = '&agrave;'; //Produces '&agrave;' alert(str); o=document.createElement("span"); o.innerHTML=t; o.firstChild.data; //Produces 'à' [an accented a] alert(o.firstChild.data); </script> ---- Server IP: 203.202.10.60 Probable Submitter: 203.206.73.244 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.6 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER, HTML_90_100,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/63785 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63785/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63785/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63785/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63785/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63785/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63785/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63785 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/63785 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php