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julio
julio

Reputation: 6748

php and special characters

I'm trying to parse a string from a French text, and I'm using both htmlspecialchars and html_entity_decode-- but certain characters aren't getting properly converted.

Any ideas?

Here's the code:

html_entity_decode(htmlspecialchars_decode($this->string($tstring))); // returned from web service

In particular, the entity that isn't decoding is this one:

'

Thanks for any help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 623

Answers (1)

Amber
Amber

Reputation: 527378

You need to pass ENT_QUOTES as the quote_style parameter:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

Otherwise, html_entity_decode() defaults to ENT_COMPAT which converts double-quote characters but doesn't touch single-quote characters (which is what ' is - a single quote).

$result = html_entity_decode($input_string, ENT_QUOTES);

Upvotes: 2

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