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

From: - Edwin - (copperwa11s_at_yahoo.co.jp)
Date: 10/02/03 

Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:15:32 +0900
To: Eugene Lee <list-php-1@fsck.net>

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:54:43 -0500
Eugene Lee <list-php-1@fsck.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:46:14PM -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> :
> : When I say that I don't know what characters Im expecting.
> : Im not talking about normal html entities, like &amp; &nbsp &lt;
> : Im talking about chinese/japanese/korean/taiwanese alphabet,
> numbers : (even punctuation if applicable).
> : Maybe Im thinking too hard, but trying to take far east languages
> : alphanumeric charaters into account,
> : seems like overkill.
> : Feel free to correct me.
>
> Okay, I will. :-)
>
> There's two issues: input and output.
>
> HTML character references address the problem of displaying certain
> characters on a web browser. This is an output issue.
>
> When you get CJKV data, you are most likely getting it in some
> encoding. Different Asian languages use their own encoding sets.
> For example, if you get Japanese text, it will be encoded in JIS,
> Shift-JIS, EUC, or something Unicode. You *have* to determine the
> type of data and its encoding. This is an input issue.

Hmm... but the characters in question were already (at least in the
examples used) in "something" Unicode (&#nnnnn;). So, there's really
no need to know whether it's JIS, Shift-JIS, EUC, etc.

?

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