On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 02:12:32PM +0200, Christoph Becker wrote:
> Alain Williams wrote:
>
> > I am trying to use this to validate input that is supposed to be UTF-8 and to
> > replace any bad characters with something - '?' would do.
> >
> > I have the test program below. No matter what I try to give as an argument to
> > mb_substitute_character() it always removes the bad input sequence, I would like
> > to replace it.
>
> Have you considered using htmlspecialchars($input, ENT_SUBSTITUTE,
> 'UTF-8') instead of mb_substitute_character()?
OK-ish -- thanks.
* ENT_SUBSTITUTE is only available from PHP 5.4 - my production machine is PHP 5.3.3 (CentOS)
* It also munges & < > -- but I can undo that with htmlspecialchars_decode()
* I need to replace the Unicode Replacement Character ("\xEF\xBF\xBD") with a '?' (easy)
* If I give it an over long character encoding (I tested "\xC0\xBC") it replaces
each byte with a '?' - so I get two of them.
It would be nice to get mb_substitute_character() working.
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