Re: [fp-dev] [PATCH] proper use of htmlentities

[NoWhereMan <now...@fl...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Naoki Hiroshima" <n...@h7...>

> NoWhereMan wrote:
>> wp_specialchars() work better?

> Ah, I didn't realize this function.  Yes, this works better.  But I have
> a question.  What is the below for?
>
>   $text = preg_replace('/&([^#])(?![a-z12]{1,8};)/', '&#038;$1', $text);

it looks like a way to unescape sequences of entities... something like 
that...
if it finds &entity; it won't change it into &amp;entity; maybe... :P

so the whole code for that func should be ok...

>> The reason for this mess is an horrible horrible editor on Windows (which
>> once I used to love, SciTE) which was supposed to handle correctly line
>> ends.
>
> I was using xemacs when I used to work on Windows :-)

cool, let's start a flamewar about vim (I use vim) :D

> Another oneliner I would like to suggest is:
>
> $ find . \( -name "*.php" -o -name "*.tpl" \) | xargs perl -pi -e
> 's/<form /<form accept-charset="utf-8" /'

Is this really needed? I thought it would have better if the user agents 
could figure it out theirselves from the page encoding. BTW if we really 
drop other encs for utf... :/
I'm not sure...

bye