Tickets :: Comment on [#7305] broken php htmlspecialchars workaround needed

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Comment	> php htmlspecialchars function is stupid: When presented with invalid > character data (e.g. raw latin1 'ä') and encoding is set to utf-8 > (also possibly other multibyte encodings), htmlspecialchars returns > empty string (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43896). > > > > horde should compensate for this, as not showing anything in an email > when it contains broken utf-8 data is just plain wrong. > > > > So, before using htmlspecialchars with charset utf-8, data should be > checked that it is (at least) valid utf-8. > > > > Not sure if this is horde or imp bug. In our local installation I > fixed the problem with attached patch to > lib/Horde/Text/Filter/text2html.php. We get a lot of messages with > broken utf-8, unfortunately. > >
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