[PHP] htmlentities() and the macintosh character set

[Michael Winston]

Hello-

I have a request but don't know where to send it.  Thus, it ends up 
here.  Alternately, I'm looking for some solutions:

The request:  Can the macintosh character set be added as an option for 
htmlentities() and other commands?  That would be so helpful for our 
mac-based company.

The problem:  I'm fairly new to php and have found that the macintosh 
character set is pretty different from other standard sets, so when 
someone in our company enters an em-dash (an extended dash, that would 
be represented as emdash; in html) into our SQL database, browsers 
display it as Ñ (Ntilde;) because that's the correct mapping in other, 
standard sets.  Of course, I could do a replace on that character, but 
there are another 6 characters that I know of that will cause problems, 
and probably more beyond that.  The quick and good way is to convert 
with htmlentities(), but the mac charset is lacking.

Any suggestions how to fix this?

Thanks,
Michael
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Re: [PHP] htmlentities() and the macintosh character set

[Eugene Lee]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:24:56AM -0700, Michael Winston wrote:
: 
: The request:  Can the macintosh character set be added as an option for 
: htmlentities() and other commands?  That would be so helpful for our 
: mac-based company.
: 
: The problem:  I'm fairly new to php and have found that the macintosh 
: character set is pretty different from other standard sets, so when 
: someone in our company enters an em-dash (an extended dash, that would 
: be represented as emdash; in html) into our SQL database, browsers 
: display it as Ñ (Ntilde;) because that's the correct mapping in other, 
: standard sets.  Of course, I could do a replace on that character, but 
: there are another 6 characters that I know of that will cause problems, 
: and probably more beyond that.  The quick and good way is to convert 
: with htmlentities(), but the mac charset is lacking.
: 
: Any suggestions how to fix this?

You could modify the HTML translation table and add Mac specific
characters to the mix.

?php

$trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
$trans[chr(213)] = 'apostrophe;';
$trans[chr(165)] = 'bullet;';
$trans[chr(208)] = 'endash;';
$trans[chr(209)] = 'emdash;';

$macstring = 'A string containing some Mac-specific characters';
$encoded = strtr($macstring, $trans);

echo $encoded;

?

I wonder if anyone has already done the work for the other entites.
Anyways, if not, you can always build your own from Apple's list:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Text/Text-516.html#MARKER-9-3

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