Tickets :: [#132] htmlspecialchars and other encodings

6.0.0-beta1

7/19/25

Summary	htmlspecialchars and other encodings
Queue	Horde Framework Packages
Type	Enhancement
State	Rejected
Priority	1. Low
Owners
Requester	vilius (at) lnk (dot) lt
Created	04/27/2004 (7753 days ago)
Due
Updated	05/07/2004 (7743 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved	05/07/2004 (7743 days ago)
Milestone
Patch	No

05/07/2004 01:28:17 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #5 State ⇒ Rejected	Reply to this comment
No, this won't happen. This is a "preview" and it will always show the raw email body. It already now produces a huge overhead but taking charsets into account would need to completely parse every single message with the MIME framework. That would actually take as long as watching every single message in a mailbox.

05/07/2004 01:18:44 PM	vilius (at) lnk (dot) lt	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
It seems that the problems is not with htmlspecialchars. We need to convert each tooltip text from email message encoding to NLS::getCharset(). I would submit a patch if only knew how to write it :) p.s. you should change ticker type to BUG.

04/27/2004 02:45:07 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #3	Reply to this comment
I don't think we will implement such a thing. Because there is no way to find out if the needed charset is currently supported by htmlspecialchar(), we would have to use this workaround for every htmlspecialchar() call, degrading the perfomance massively. I don't consider this whole thing a huge problem though, because UTF-8 is supported and OSes not supporting UTF-8 will disappear soon anyway.

04/27/2004 02:21:13 PM	vilius (at) lnk (dot) lt	Comment #2	Reply to this comment
some more info on this: http://www.mail-archive.com/php-i18n@lists.php.net/msg00272.html

04/27/2004 01:33:16 PM		New Attachment: htmlspecialchars.JPG

04/27/2004 01:32:48 PM	vilius (at) lnk (dot) lt	Comment #1 State ⇒ New Priority ⇒ 1. Low Type ⇒ Enhancement Queue ⇒ Horde Framework Packages	Reply to this comment
It would be nice to have rewriten htmlspecialchars function, to support more encodings than native php's htmlspecialchars() has (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php table no.1). For now, I'm using windows-1257 encoding, and i'm getting broken HTML if tooltip preview is turned on (see attachment). It confuses some older browsers, and i can't get into my inbox at all.