note 107142 added to function.html-entity-decode

Please note that "Anonymous 02-Oct-2008 11:40" author is wrong saying "The previous post seems incorrect. Even if PHP sets the charset, it can be overridden if HTML charsets are sent via META tags beforehand." HTML may override it on display, but the ENT_QUOTES in syntax addslashes(html_entity_decode($x, ENT_QUOTES); is neccesery, when converting text before adding it to mysql_query. Without ENT_QUOTES text will read fine utf-8, except hexdec symbols. Leaving out ENT_QUOTES results in " ' " being inserted as ' ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 78.84.2.214 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/107142 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107142/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107142/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107142/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107142/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107142/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107142/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107142 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/107142 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php