note 86409 added to function.htmlentities

Note that as of 5.2.5 it appears that if the input string contains a character that is not valid for the output encoding you've specified, then this function returns null. You might expect it to just strip the invalid char, but it doesn't. You can strip the chars yourself like so: iconv('utf-8','utf-8',$str); You can combine that with htmlentities also: $str = htmlentities(iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', $str, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); Should give you a string with htmlentities encoded to utf-8, and any unsupported chars stripped. ---- Server IP: 117.104.160.194 Probable Submitter: 210.9.182.39 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/86409 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86409/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86409/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86409/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86409/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86409/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86409/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/86409 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/86409 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php