Re: [PHP] languages and PHP

David Christopher Zentgraf wrote:

Your biggest problem will be if you accept any kind of user input
which could be in any kind of language.
Depending on your server configuration you'll probably have some
serious cleaning and filtering to do.
I often have to employ this line for example:
foreach (array_keys($_POST) as $key) $clean[$key] =
mb_convert_encoding($_POST[$key], "UTF-8");

Trying to make sure that you'll receive UTF-8 helps as well:
<form action="form.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
accept-charset="utf-8">

I work almost exclusively in UTF-8 (language irrelevant), but I've never
had to do any of the above. The mb_convert_encoding() from UTF-8 to
UTF-8 doesn't seem to make much sense?


/Per Jessen, Zürich
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