Posted by Thorsten Ottosen on 03/23/06 00:48

Hi,

I'm trying to escape html before its saved in a database.

I tried

$text = htmlentities( $reader->value );

but that don't work for e.g. japanese characters.

I then tried

$text = mb_convert_encoding( $text, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-16' );

because the text-file is encode in UTF-16.

But that in particular doesn't work. If I specify 'UTF-8'
the text looks normal, but nothing is escaped så html tags still
appears as tags.

can anyone suggest what to do?

Thanks

-Thorsten

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