[PHP] HTML equivalents of accented characters

[David Nicholson]

Hello,

This is a reply to an e-mail that you wrote on Mon, 11 Aug 2003 at
19:18, lines prefixed by '>' were originally written by you.

> I don't think this has been discussed, although I'm not really

sure

> what you would call these accented characters, so I haven't been

able

> to do a complete search of the archives, so apologies if this has

been

> previously discussed.
> Is there a function that not only turns & into &, " into ",
> and the like, but also turns é into é and likewise with other
> accented characters? I know I could easily write one, but why if

one

> already exists?

echo htmlentities("é"); // outputs é

See [url]http://php.net/htmlentities[/url]

David.

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should have all you want

>From: "Liam Gibbs" <liamgibbs@sympatico.ca>
>To: "php list" <php-general@lists.php.net>
>Subject: [PHP] HTML equivalents of accented characters
>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:18:37 -0400
>
>I don't think this has been discussed, although I'm not really sure what
>you would call these accented characters, so I haven't been able to do a
>complete search of the archives, so apologies if this has been previously
>discussed.
>
>Is there a function that not only turns & into &amp;, " into &quot;, and
>the like, but also turns é into &eacute; and likewise with other accented
>characters? I know I could easily write one, but why if one already exists?

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[Liam Gibbs]

> I think php.net/htmlentities will do this.

Apparently it *is*, but it won't for me. Any problems with this code?

$result[] = "é";
$result[1] = htmlspecialchars($result[0]);
$result[2] = htmlentities($result[0]);

Both return the accented E unchanged.

[Liam Gibbs]

> I bet they do, did you check the HTML source as well? My guess is that the

> source is reading the actual expected output, but your browser views "é",

as

> it should of course.

Sorry, should have mentioned. The source code reads the actual character,
not the &eacute;.

[Ivo Fokkema]

"Liam Gibbs" <liamgibbs@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:002b01c36194$dec89fd0$4d59fea9@TeletranOne...

> > I bet they do, did you check the HTML source as well? My guess is that

the

> > source is reading the actual expected output, but your browser views

"é",

> as

> > it should of course.

> Sorry, should have mentioned. The source code reads the actual character,
> not the &eacute;.

Hmmm... interesting... I tested your exact code in this format :

<?php
$result[] = "é";
$result[1] = htmlspecialchars($result[0]);
$result[2] = htmlentities($result[0]);

foreach ($result as $val) {
print ("[" . $val . "]");
}
?>

which returned (sourcecode)
[é][é][&eacute;]

So with me, htmlentities works. Did you try this :

$a = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
var_dump($a);

? With me, it returns a 99 elements array with loads of characters,
including the "é". (PHP/4.2.3 on Win2000)

I have no idea what might be the problem, what does your translation table
look like?

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[Liam Gibbs]

> I have no idea what might be the problem, what does your translation table

> look like?

Mine is still coming out as a single character. Here's my code, in case
anyone can spot any stupid human error blunder I'm making:

$translationtable = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
$string = htmlspecialchars($string);

Also, here's my setup, just in case:
PHP 4.3.1
Linux 2.2.19 #1 i586
Apache 1.3.27
MySQL 3.23.49 (don't know what this has to do with it, but just in case
there has been some interference with PHP and MySQL)
GD 2.0 compatible