Gentlemen,
Regarding this bug report: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49705
As more developers move away from using regular expressions to parse
HTML and start using DOMDocument, I've noticed that quite a few
stumble over encoding "issues". They're not bugs, because it's
documented (I think) that if a document is loaded using
::loadHTMLFile() or if it contains a "content-type" meta tag which
specifies the character encoding it will work as expected.
So far I've suggested a hack that involves adding the meta-tag in
front of the string that contains the HTML. As horrible as it seems,
that does the job!
That said, I'm hoping to get enough internals support to add a
parameter to ::loadHTML() that set / overrides the default character
set when processing the document; when given, any <meta> tags
pertaining to character set encoding should be ignored (AFAIK that's
also the browser's behavior).
Btw, there's another patch that also introduces a new parameter to
::parseHTML() which has gone into 5.4 branch
(https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54037), so it looks like this would
be the second (optional) parameter then.
Thoughts?
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Tjerk
Gentlemen,
Regarding this bug report: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49705
As more developers move away from using regular expressions to parse
HTML and start using DOMDocument, I've noticed that quite a few
stumble over encoding "issues". They're not bugs, because it's
documented (I think) that if a document is loaded using
::loadHTMLFile() or if it contains a "content-type" meta tag which
specifies the character encoding it will work as expected.So far I've suggested a hack that involves adding the meta-tag in
front of the string that contains the HTML. As horrible as it seems,
that does the job!That said, I'm hoping to get enough internals support to add a
parameter to ::loadHTML() that set / overrides the default character
set when processing the document; when given, any <meta> tags
pertaining to character set encoding should be ignored (AFAIK that's
also the browser's behavior).Btw, there's another patch that also introduces a new parameter to
::parseHTML() which has gone into 5.4 branch
(https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54037), so it looks like this would
be the second (optional) parameter then.Thoughts?
would be nice.
bump.
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Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu