On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Bill Horne <b...@horne.net> wrote: > I'm moving the Telecom Digest to a new server, and I'm seeking information > about a binary named "entities", and one named "fixup". I've found them in > a script that processes emails into html pages for publications, but the > script's author isn't available, and neither is working. > > AFAICT, "entities" is supposed to replace ASCII characters with HTML > Entities where needed, and I don't know what "fixup" is supposed to do. > >
[replying to all this time] Here is a PHP function that could help you replace the 'entities' binary /** * Replaces ampersands with html entity, making it safe for XML * use lookahead assertion that the ampersand is not followed by an optional hash, one or more * word characters and a semicolon. In other words, it WILL match if it's a bare ampersand, * such as in the string "H&R Block" but * will leave friendly entities like " or Õ alone * @see http://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.assertions.php * @param string $message * @return string */ function entitySafe($message) { return preg_replace('/&(?!#?\w+;)/', '&', $message); } Greg Rundlett http://eQuality-Tech.com <http://equality-tech.com/> http://freephile.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
