On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:53:51 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm interested in alternative solutions (to those found in the comments
>on http://au.php.net/htmlspecialchars) for dealing with text pasted
>into a textarea from Word et al.
>
>I want a way of 'dumbing down' certain characters (like quotes) before
>putting them through my own smart quotes engine, and convert other
>characters to their appropriate HTML entity.
>
>htmlspecialchars() doesn't seem to be converting a few test chars I
>have (like curly quotes)
>
>
>I'm interested in hearing of a few different methods to overcome the
>evil MS Word text :)
/**
* XML equivalent of htmlentities() - £ becomes £
* this function placed here to avoid calling in another include file
**/
function xmlentities ($string, $quote_style = ENT_COMPAT) {
static $trans; // using a static variable avoids repeatedly creating the
translation table
if (!is_array ($trans)) {
$trans = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES, $quote_style);
$trans[chr(128)] = '€';
$trans[chr(130)] = '‚';
$trans[chr(131)] = 'ƒ';
$trans[chr(132)] = '„';
$trans[chr(133)] = '…';
$trans[chr(134)] = '†';
$trans[chr(135)] = '‡';
$trans[chr(136)] = 'ˆ';
$trans[chr(137)] = '‰';
$trans[chr(138)] = 'Š';
$trans[chr(139)] = '‹';
$trans[chr(140)] = 'Œ';
$trans[chr(145)] = '‘';
$trans[chr(146)] = '’';
$trans[chr(147)] = '“';
$trans[chr(148)] = '”';
$trans[chr(149)] = '•';
$trans[chr(150)] = '-';
$trans[chr(151)] = '—';
$trans[chr(152)] = '˜';
$trans[chr(153)] = '™';
$trans[chr(154)] = 'š';
$trans[chr(155)] = '›';
$trans[chr(156)] = 'œ';
$trans[chr(159)] = 'Ÿ';
array_walk ($trans, create_function ('&$a, $b', '$a = "&#" . ord
($b) . ";";'));
}
return (strtr ($string, $trans));
}
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