From: "Eugene Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Eugene, your example leads me to believe that one knows before hand what characters needs special attention,
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:12:16AM -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: : : Got a problem with htmlspecialchars being too greedy, where : for example, it converts : &foo; : to : &foo; : : Yes it displays correctly in the browser for some content, but not all. : (an example is posted below) : So I came up with this example code, but not sure if there is an : easier/better way to get the correct end result. : If there is a better way, feel free to let me know. : Thanks : : Note: I dont read/speak chinese, so if its offensive please forgive me. : : ------ : <?php : : $foo = '中文 & http://www.foo.com/index.php?foo=1&bar=2';
The problem isn't with htmlspecialchars(). It doesn't know what parts of the string are HTML character references and which parts are not. But if you're willing to dig up the numeric character references for those specific Chinese characters, then split the string into the part that needs no translation and the part that needs it. That is:
$foo1encoded = '中文'
$foo2raw = ' & http://www.foo.com/index.php?foo=1&bar=2';
$foo = $foo1 . htmlspecialchars(foo2raw);
Maybe you should run html_entity_decode() on the string first, then run encode again. The decode will take 中 and turn it into it's actual character but not affect anything else. Then the recoding will turn it back into 中 and also encode any other characters.
in order to not run it through htmlspecialchars. I would never know what characters needs special attention.
John, a good idea, but unfortunately, after some tests, and re-reading the manual, it seems html_entity_decode(),
only recognises "html entities". Not ascii values of language characters.
So Im going to push ahead with my code, and see if it breaks anything :)
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