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Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters [message #181184 is a reply to message #181181] Sat, 20 April 2013 00:36 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Christoph Becker is currently offline  Christoph Becker
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 4/19/2013 6:26 PM, Christoph Becker wrote:
>> Jim Higgins wrote:
>>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:38:02 +0200, in
>>> <kkrvda$od5$1(at)speranza(dot)aioe(dot)org>, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69(at)gmx(dot)de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jim Higgins wrote:
>>>> > I have a problem with people entering a slashed zero vs a standard
>>>> > ASCII zero into HTML forms intended to store data in a MySQL database.
>>>>
>>>> Is it really a slashed zero (U+0030 U+0338) they're entering, or do
>>>> they
>>>> enter some similar looking character such as the Danish Ø? In the
>>>> former case you can simply replace the slashed zero with a standard
>>>> zero. Assuming UTF-8 encoding:
>>>>
>>>> $input = str_replace('\xCC\xB8', '', $input);
>>>
>>>
>>> It's usually 0x41 0x7E, but sometimes 0xD8.
>>
>> 0xD8 is Ø in ISO-8859-1 for example; I do not know which character
>> encoding represents the same or a similar character as 0x41 0x7E.
>> Anyway, ISTM you're missing to enforce a particular character encoding
>> for your document (see <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html> for
>> HTML 4.01 documents).
>>
>
> This is a recommendation only. The browser is free to ignore it. There
> is no way to force a browser to do anything in HTML.

The mentioned W3C recommendation also elaborates on the "charset"
parameter of the "Content-Type" header, which should be respected by all
user agents conforming to RFC 2616, if they have requested the URI with
a suitable "Accept-Charset" header. Otherwise the PHP script may
respond with "406 Not acceptable" (and a body explaining the requirements).

--
Christoph M. Becker
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