Define Default Charset for htmlentities()
character-encoding, php, special-characters, unicode
Solution
As the manual page doesn't say anything about changing the default charset, I don't think there is a way to do that ; and I don't remember having ever seen anything about that.
I wouldn't use anything like apd either -- instead, I would probably :
- create my own function, that calls htmlentities with the right parameters
- and replace every call to htmlentities by a call to my new function (this can probably be done automatically, using a few lines of scripts)
Problem
I was wondering if there were any way to define the default encoding for `htmlentities()`. I have a big project going that uses `htmlentities` calls all over the place, and was wondering if there was a simple way to set it from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 as the default character encoding, using something simple like `ini_set()`. Or possibly with a separate namespace declaration. Failing that, I would not be opposed to renaming and overriding the `htmlentities` function to always use Unicode, but am reluctant to install anything as freaky (to me) as PECL apd.