[mythtv] mythweb translation problem with HTML entities (was Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r8618 - in trunk/mythplugins/mythweb by xris)

[Chris Petersen]

> Please note that there's one weird thing. The UTF-8 strings are
> translated to HTML entities and these entities are wrong at several
> places, for example in page <title> or in div="info_tv" on the title
> page.
> 
> I don't know why it happens. I actually don't know why the strings are
> translated to HTML entities at all. Any reason? I admit I don't know
> PHP..

Just means those htmlentities calls need to be made UTF-8 aware.  Really 
wish php supported function overloading.  Guess I should just write a 
new function that does the htmlentities($strung, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8') 
automatically so I don't have to type that extra stuff every time.

As for the "why"...  mainly because I just don't trust user input (esp. 
data from the listing providers).

-Chris