Tag Archives: Encoding

CSS character escape sequences, more on the CSS3 selector syntax (STTS 3 Profile Specification) at W3C.

Posted on 7 Mar 2012 by hakre | Leave a comment

htmlspecialchars() improvements in PHP 5.4; the PHP default_charset is here. Input has left untouched so far, first assumable is output encoding will lead to input encoding. But can’t resolve the general dilemma of unknown input encoding for your webapp. See … Continue reading →

Posted on 4 Mar 2012 by hakre | Leave a comment

PHP UTF-8 String Length

Posted on 13 Dec 2011 by hakre

If you’ve got an UTF-8 encoded PHP string (e.g. when working with DOMDocument) and you don’t want to rely on the mbstring extension to get it’s length, this can be solved with a simple regular expression (as the string does … Continue reading →

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Substitutes for PHP 5.4’s htmlspecialchars.

Posted on 31 Aug 2011 by hakre

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Best Practice robots.txt

Posted on 23 Feb 2011 by hakre

I did some research month ago and wrote a longer article about robots.txt. But for a quick lookup it’s too much to read, so today it’s time a for a simple best-practices check-list: Use ASCII encoding for robots.txt (see as … Continue reading →

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Encode a PHP String

Posted on 29 Dec 2010 by hakre

Today I updated PHPMyadmin on one of my boxes. Nothing special so far, but I saw that it’s now possible to export data in form of a PHP array. Well I thought that’s somehow nice. But the plugin was broken. … Continue reading →

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Verify file encoding with grep

Posted on 30 Aug 2010 by hakre

List all lines in PHP-files in a directory-tree that contain characters out of the ASCII 7Bit pane: ~ grep -nPR –include=*.php [\xE0-\xFF] * Does a quick and easy controlling on a full package of files quickly. Finds stuff like this … Continue reading →

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Line Endings in diverse Operating Systems

Posted on 14 May 2010 by hakre

While coding some XML stuff lately (if you’re into PHP and XML, get a grip on FluentDOM if you have not already) I ran about some line ending issues. That [NEL] thingy was new to me, so I just wanted … Continue reading →

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HTML Entity Boundaries – Zero Padding

Posted on 25 Feb 2010 by hakre

I can not say why, but the HTML specification does allow to zero-pad numerical entities [Reference needed]. Well that sounds fair per-se, but it does not give a limit here. So strictly spoken, you can pad your numeric entities with … Continue reading →

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