Escape to Unicode?

[ReGenesis0@aol.com]

I've begun dealing with PHP's XML functions (puttup!)

I shoudl say- php's DEFAULT XML functions, no extensions. Probably not
5.0. I don't care...

The POINt is, they choke on funny characters, even encoded funny
characters. You need to use the unicode. (change ñ to ñ).

Whatevuh.

That's why, why- now ignore that part, because it will distract and
proably cause you to misconstrue the thrust of the question to follow:

Does PHP have a function that will escape all funny characters in a
string (encoded, unencoded, both, either...) to their unicode
equivilants?

In a string- ignore the XML parts of this question.

(I'm looking at pre-proscessing the data coming into forms that will
form the offending XML)

-Derik

[Toby Inkster]

Re: Escape to Unicode?

ReGenesis0 wrote:
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> The POINt is, they choke on funny characters, even encoded funny
> characters. You need to use the unicode. (change ñ to ñ).[/color]

There is no such thing as ñ in generic XML. ñ is a purely
HTML concept. There are only five pre-defined entities which XML parsers
are expected to know:

&
<
>
"
'

If PHP understood ñ in generic XML it would be behaving
*incorrectly*. ñ is undefined. (I'm assuming here that you've not
written a DTD that defines what ñ means, which seems like a
reasonable assumption.)
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> Does PHP have a function that will escape all funny characters in a
> string (encoded, unencoded, both, either...) to their unicode
> equivilants?[/color]

It seems you want some function that converts:

ñ => ñ
€ => €

You might be able to do this using html_entity_dec ode() to get everything
in its raw form (e.g. will convert € to €) and then use a regular
expression to convert things into numeric character references (e.g. €
to €). Such a regular expression can be found in soapergem at gmail
dot com's 10 May 2006 comment here:

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

That said, you're better off correcting the root problem -- that ñ
is not correct XML.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

[ReGenesis0@aol.com]

Re: Escape to Unicode?

Toby Inkster wrote:
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> You might be able to do this using html_entity_dec ode() to get everything
> in its raw form (e.g. will convert € to €) and then use a regular
> expression to convert things into numeric character references (e.g. €
> to €). Such a regular expression can be found in soapergem at gmail
> dot com's 10 May 2006 comment here:
> http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php
>
> That said, you're better off correcting the root problem -- that ñ
> is not correct XML.[/color]

....which is precicely what I indent to do-- I want to convert such tags
as they come in as form inputs before they're sent to become XML files.

I'm not asking a question sideways of the problem and missing something
obvious, am I? I hate when that happens...

-Derik