Posted by Timothy Madden on 04/26/07 12:23

Hello

Is there a function that will allow me to
output text written in utf-8 (from db for example)
if my document has

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

I mean htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() will only convert
characters that have an associated entity defined in HTML.
I would also like to translate all non-latin1 characters using
numeric references.

&#355 is for a Romanian letter, ţ, for example, and letter ţ
written in UTF-8 is not translated by htmlentities(), even if
I give the function the optional character-set argument, 'UTF-8'
(you can actually see the letter I typed if your system and your
news reader understand and can display ISO latin 2 characters,
encoded in utf-8).

I mean HTML documents can use characters in the entire UNICODE
set, even if the document source is written in ASCII for example,
by encoding any non-ASCII character with HTML entities.

Is there in PHP a function that will encode in HTML all non-ASCII
characters, or all non-latin1 characters, or all characters not in the
source character set ?

Thank you,
Timothy Madden

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