On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:24:56AM -0700, Michael Winston wrote:
:
: The request: Can the macintosh character set be added as an option for
: htmlentities() and other commands? That would be so helpful for our
: mac-based company.
:
: The problem: I'm fairly new to php and have found that the macintosh
: character set is pretty different from other standard sets, so when
: someone in our company enters an em-dash (an extended dash, that would
: be represented as &emdash; in html) into our SQL database, browsers
: display it as Ñ (Ñ) because that's the correct mapping in other,
: standard sets. Of course, I could do a replace on that character, but
: there are another 6 characters that I know of that will cause problems,
: and probably more beyond that. The quick and good way is to convert
: with htmlentities(), but the mac charset is lacking.
:
: Any suggestions how to fix this?
You could modify the HTML translation table and add Mac specific
characters to the mix.
<?php
$trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
$trans[chr(213)] = '&apostrophe;';
$trans[chr(165)] = '•';
$trans[chr(208)] = '&endash;';
$trans[chr(209)] = '&emdash;';
$macstring = 'A string containing some Mac-specific characters';
$encoded = strtr($macstring, $trans);
echo $encoded;
?>
I wonder if anyone has already done the work for the other entites.
Anyways, if not, you can always build your own from Apple's list:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Text/Text-516.html#MARKER-9-3
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