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Re: encoding [message #186328 is a reply to message #186327]

Thu, 26 June 2014 11:20

Christoph Michael Bec
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Denis McMahon wrote:

> htmlentities( $string, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8" );
>
> Not sure if I actually need the setlocale or not. Seems to work without
> it.

In PHP < 5.4 the default of the 3rd parameter is 'ISO-8859-1', so
setting this parameter appropriately is important when $string may
contain non ASCII characters. For instance:

htmlentities("\xC3\xA4", ENT_COMPAT, 'ISO-8859-1');
// => 'Ã¤'

htmlentities("\xC3\xA4", ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
// => 'ä'

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