Question

Somehow, in a customer’s product theres a dot, . that shows a unknown char square, (i cant copy it to here), but you know those you see when you dont support a language on the web, happens at chinese sites often.

Those squares makes my whole xml file return error:

invalid character in attribute value

How can I, that do not have control to delete this character, to strip/convert this char and continue?

I did:

htmlspecialchars($description, ENT_COMPAT);

(description takes the description=”” attribute, that this character is in.)

htmlspecialchars() helps me with alot of chars. But not this one. How can i do this?

Answer 1

Instead of htmlspecialchars(), try it with htmlentities(), which will attempt to encode any entity it can.

htmlentities($description, ENT_COMPAT|ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");