[wp-hackers] 'stripslashes(attribute_escape(' ?

[Abel Cheung]

On Jan 14, 2008 1:06 AM, Andre SC <andre at pixelplexus.co.za> wrote:
> For a plugin that needs to cope with chinese names and characters I'm using:
>  `htmlentities(trim($value), ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"); `
> (for data fields that might also end up being post titles).
>
> When the data is being parroted back at the user via a form, is there
> any reason not to do something like :
> `stripslashes(attribute_escape($value))`
>
> (I figure attribute_escape being native to the WordPress platform might
> deserve to be respected/retained but I don't want to show escaped
> 'quotes' e.g. `\'` as its a critical part of many chinese names)

Put it bluntly, nobody can help you here. Wordpress isn't tailored for Asian
languages. Being able to show glyphs on Asian languages is already good
enough.

Abel

>
> I seem to be blocked from the forum agin/still, so hope someone here can
> help me please.
>
> Thanx
>
> André SC
>
>
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