note 82483 added to function.urlencode

Kerdster's function works like a charm. It has only a minor beauty flaw in my humble opinion: It encodes every character, even the plain ascii ones. This just doesn't like nice in the browsers address bar. ;-) Inspired by Mkaganer's utf8_urldecode example in urldecode comments here's the enhanced code: <?php function utf16_urlencode ( $str ) { # convert characters > 255 into HTML entities $convmap = array( 0xFF, 0x2FFFF, 0, 0xFFFF ); $str = mb_encode_numericentity( $str, $convmap, "UTF-8"); # escape HTML entities, so they are not urlencoded $str = preg_replace( '/&#([0-9a-fA-F]{2,5});/i', 'mark\\1mark', $str ); $str = urlencode($str); # now convert escaped entities into unicode url syntax $str = preg_replace( '/mark([0-9a-fA-F]{2,5})mark/i', '%u\\1', $str ); return $str; } ?> Probably the above code could be optimized further, comments are highly appreciated! Thanks, Simon ---- Server IP: 194.153.94.10 Probable Submitter: 84.74.48.39 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/82483 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82483/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82483/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82483/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82483/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82483/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82483/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82483 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/82483 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php