Re: [PHP] Attempt at putting greedy htmlspecialchars on a diet

[Gerard Samuel]

- Edwin - wrote:

"Far east languages" are not necessarily in this form: "&#nnnnn;" So,

running htmlspecialchars() on, say, Japanese characters would do NO
harm since &, ", ', <, > are NOT Japanese characters ;)
Or, am I missing something? :)

Not exactly.  When storing "far east languages" in a database for 
example, thats the format its stored as.
&#xxxxx;
Also, I've seen it in that form in the $_POST array from a form.

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