Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65081&edit=1
ID: 65081
Updated by: a...@php.net
Reported by: masakielastic at gmail dot com
Summary: new function for replacing ill-formd byte sequences
with substitute characters
Status: Open
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: mbstring related
Operating System: All
PHP Version: 5.5.0
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
related to bug #65045 .
Previous Comments:
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[2013-06-21 03:20:55] masakielastic at gmail dot com
Description:
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New function for replacing ill-formd byte sequences with substitute characters
is needed. The problem using mb_convert_encoding for that purpose is that the
function name doesn't represent the intent.Specfying same encoding twice is
verbose and can be interpreted as meaningless conversion for the beginners.
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');
The case study can be seen in Ruby. Ruby 2.1 introduces String#scrub.
http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6752
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/1e8a05c1dfee94db9b6b825097e1d192ad32930a/strin
g.c#L7770-L7783
The debate whether the substitute character can be specified or not is needed.
function mb_scrub($str, $encoding = '', $substitute = '')
{
if ('' === $encoding) {
$encoding = mb_internal_encoding();
}
if ('' === $substutute) {
$ret = mb_convert_encoding($str, $encoding, $encoding);
} else {
$before_substitute = mb_substitute_character();
mb_substitute_character($substitute);
$ret = mb_convert_encoding($str, $encoding, $encoding);
mb_substitute_character($before_substitute);
}
return $ret;
}
This discussion can be applied to Uconverter.
function uconverter_scrub($str, $encoding, $opts = '')
{
if ('' === $opts) {
return UConverter::transcode($str, $encoding, $encoding, $opts);
} else {
return UConverter::transcode($str, $encoding, $encoding);
}
}
The discussion for standard string functions and filter functions may be needed
since htmlspecialchars can be used for that purpose.
function str_scrub($str, $encoding = 'UTF-8')
{
return htmlspecialchars_decode(htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_SUBSTITUTE,
$encoding));
}
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