note 37614 added to function.htmlentities

The function below does a direct MacRoman to ISO 8859-1 charset conversion. It also avoids the problem of having to have foreign chars in your scripts (see user notes for strtr()) by using hex character codes. Make sure you remove all the line breaks from within the conversion strings. This is posted as an alternative to the script provided by dmurphy at telegeography dot com in the notes for this function, rather than the notes for strtr (perhaps I should post it in both places?). That script is pretty inefficient, particulaly as many strings will be shorter than the table that's scanned on every pass, and he forgot to quote 'key' and 'value'. It does have the advantage of handling 'odd' charcters quite neatly though. /** * Convert MacRoman encoded string into an ISO-8859-1 encoded string * Loses a few odd chars (ligatures etc) that are not in ISO 8859-1 * Adapted from http://www.entropy.ch/software/ * perl/conversion-scripts/convert_mac2iso.pl.txt */ function macroman2iso($macstring){ return strtr($macstring, "\\x80\\x81\\x82\\x83\\x84\\x85\\x86\\x87\\x88\\x89\\x8a\\x8b \\x8c\\x8d\\x8e\\x8f\\x90\\x91\\x92\\x93\\x94\\x95\\x96\\x97\\x98 \\x99\\x9a\\x9b\\x9c\\x9d\\x9e\\x9f\\xa1\\xa4\\xa6\\xa7\\xa8 \\xab\\xac\\xae\\xaf\\xb4\\xbb\\xbc\\xbe\\xbf\\xc0\\xc1\\xc2\\xc7\\xc8 \\xca\\xcb\\xcc\\xd6\\xd8\\xdb\\xe1\\xe5\\xe6\\xe7\\xe8\\xe9\\xea\\xeb \\xec\\xed\\xee\\xef\\xf1\\xf2\\xf3\\xf4\\xf8\\xfc", "\\xc4\\xc5\\xc7\\xc9\\xd1\\xd6\\xdc\\xe1\\xe0\\xe2\\xe4\\xe3 \\xe5\\xe7\\xe9\\xe8\\xea\\xeb\\xed\\xec\\xee\\xef\\xf1\\xf3\\xf2\\xf4 \\xf6\\xf5\\xfa\\xf9\\xfb\\xfc\\xb0\\xa7\\xb6\\xdf\\xae\\xb4\\xa8 \\xc6\\xd8\\xa5\\xaa\\xba\\xe6\\xf8\\xbf\\xa1\\xac\\xab\\xbb \\xa0\\xc0\\xc3\\xf7\\xff\\xa4\\xb7\\xc2\\xca\\xc1\\xcb\\xc8\\xcd \\xce\\xcf\\xcc\\xd3\\xd4\\xd2\\xda\\xdb\\xd9\\xaf\\xb8" ); } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+37614 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+37614&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+37614&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php