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Asked: 2026-05-13T13:34:58+00:00

I was wondering if there were any way to define the default encoding for

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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.

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  1. Editorial Team

    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)
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