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Re: [SMARTY] html_options doesn't escape specialcharacters

Messju Mohr

2004-05-14, 6:32 am

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:56:44PM +0300, David Förster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the html_options function doesn't replace specialcharacters in labels or
> values like german umlauts with the appropriate escaped entities.
>
> I had a look at the source and found that the problem is the shared
> function escape_special_chars which uses htmlspecialchars instead of
> htmlentities.
>
> Is this a bug or the wanted behaviour?

i think this is wanted behaviour.

the relevant characters "<", ">" and "\"" are escaped.

umlauts and other special chars are fully valid in your (x)html when
you declare the correct charset in the httpd- and html-headers.

> - david

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