Question

I have a string that looks something like this:

Bürstner    

When I use htmlentities() on it, I set the double encode param to false, but it still ends up re-encoding the   into  

I’m using this to encode:

$out = htmlentities($string,ENT_NOQUOTES, 0);

Am I somehow misunderstanding how this works? The desired output is to encode the umlaut u, but leave the existing nbsp entities alone (this is just an example, there are MANY entities in a very long document already).

** EDIT **

Since this seems unclear, ORIGINAL STRING:

Bürstner   

DESIRED OUTPUT:

Bürstner   

The existing entities should be left alone.

Answer 1

The third parameter of htmlentities is the charset parameter; the fourth parameter is the double_encode parameter. So try this:

$out = htmlentities($string, ENT_NOQUOTES, ini_get('default_charset'), false);