On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Cliff Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > b 26, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Cliff Hirsch wrote: > I have been validating textareas using ctype_print > > > > Are you using utf-8 encoding? What do you need to validate/sanitize with > the textareas? That the input is using the correct character set? Need to > strip html from it? I've had pretty good luck with using utf-8 and having > text cut and pasted from MS Word come through fine. > > I have been waffling between 8859-1 and utf-8. Regarding validating a text > area — good question. No stripping necessary. I though ctype_print looked > good — any reasonable printable character. Maybe textarea doesn't need to be > validated/sanitized if everything is escaping properly? I thought the > browser took care of the charset, but don't know for sure.
Is there a downside to using utf-8? If you use 8859-1 you're practically making the application English-only, or at least limiting the ability of people to express themselves. そうかなあ？ -- Chris Snyder http://chxo.com/
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