note 85884 deleted from function.htmlentities by cmb

Note Submitter: Kenneth Kin Lum ---- use htmlspecialchars() if you are passing in a usual ASCII string. It is faster than htmlentities(). For example, if you are just doing htmlentities('<div style="background: #fff"></div>'); then you can just use htmlspecialchars(). htmlentities() will look for all possible ways to convert string into html entities, such as &copy; or &eacute; (which is e with an acute accent on top). Note that ASCII is just 7 bit, which is 0x00 to 0x7F. htmlspecialchars() will handle characters inside this range already. htmlentities() is for the 8-bit Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) to handle European characters, or for UTF-8 when the 3rd argument is "UTF-8" to handle UTF-8 characters, or other types of encodings using different values for the 3rd argument passed into htmlentities().