Jacob Friis Saxberg wrote:
Does anyone know of a Php funtion that can do this:
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/NumericEntities.html
http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php
htmlentities converts to named entitites. I want it to numeric entities.
Yes; 'tis true. However, in looking at the manual page further, I
see at least one "user submitted" entry that looks like what you
may be desiring, not too far down the page.
Kevin Kinsey
Yes, 'tis true -- sort of.
The remaining "user submitted" entries skirt the subject, but don't
provide a complete translation.
I estimate about 245 named entities (w3c approved), which can be found here:
http://www.roborg.co.uk/html_entities/
If all of those were pumped through some of those "user submitted"
functions, then I think that would provide Jacob's solution.
Unfortunately, I don't know of any current php functions that do
that. I'm sure you realize that they (Jacob's link above) are simply
taking a small set of entities to their to their Unicode equivalents,
which are in HEX.
For example a euro-glyph code point in Unicode is 20AC, which is of
course HEX for 8364 DEC.
The problem is that unfortunately most browsers do not yet support
Unicode characters, so one must either use "&euro" or it's decimal
equivalent in the form of €.
So, at the moment, we are in transition. It might be a nice and a
somewhat simple project for someone to convert all named entities
into numeric equivalents.
If I find some spare time (other than writing post to this list),
perhaps I'll do it.
tedd
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