[PHP] Re: Str_replace?

[Satyam]

Try htmlentities(), its purpose is to escape those special characters, and 
it should work with any language.

Satyam

"Ryan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hey,
>
> I am making a site primary for the Swedish audiance, Swedish alphabets are
> pretty much the same as our English ones except for three extras, which 
> are:
> (lowercase) åäö (and uppercase) ÅÄÖ
>
> While using dreamweaver to format some of the pages I noticed  that DW
> converts those letters to:
> å=&aring;
> ö=&ouml;
> ä=&auml;
>
> Å=&Aring;
> Ö=&Ouml;
> Ä=&Auml;
>
> which displays fine on the html output.
>
> My question is, do you think I should do a str_replace() on all instances 
> of
> user input if it matches the above 6 characters before putting it in the
> mysql db...or leave it as is?
>
> Just writing åäöÅÄÖ normally in a html file is not giving me any problems
> either...but that may because when i installed windows I installed Swedish
> and English language packs.....I guess using the codes that dreamweaver 
> uses
> would just make it easier for people to read who dont have the language
> installed on their system...question is, is it worth the str_replace() 
> price
> for a high traffic dating site?
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>
>
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