HTML encoding of foreign language characters

[webmasterd]

I have a problem, when someone wants to share a picture from my image hosting to Facebook, accents, ñ and other Latin characters are converted into codes (Ex. Á = & aacute), what should I do?

// Attach my PrintScreen!

Observe the image, instead of showing "República" it appears and shared: "República"

 

[Rodolfo]

I've noticed the issue and I will patch it in the next release.

 

[Rodolfo]

Actually the solution is quite easy:

Open lib/G/functions.php and replace this:

    // Safe for HTML output
    function safe_html($var) {
        if(!is_array($var)) {
            return $var === NULL ? NULL : htmlentities($var, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
        }
        $safe_array = array();
        foreach($var as $k => $v) {
            $safe_array[$k] = is_array($v) ? safe_html($v) : ($v === NULL ? NULL : htmlentities($v, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
           
        }
        return $safe_array;
    }

With this:

    // Safe for HTML output
    function safe_html($var) {
        if(!is_array($var)) {
            return $var === NULL ? NULL : htmlspecialchars($var, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); // htmlspecialchars keeps ñ, á and all the UTF-8 valid chars
        }
        $safe_array = array();
        foreach($var as $k => $v) {
            $safe_array[$k] = is_array($v) ? safe_html($v) : ($v === NULL ? NULL : htmlspecialchars($v, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
           
        }
        return $safe_array;
    }

 

[webmasterd]

Muchas Gracias! - Thank you, Rodolfo!

 

[webmasterd]

I did what you told me and has not worked.

 

[Rodolfo]

That's because Facebook cache. https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

 

[webmasterd]

This issue is solved! - Thanks Rodolfo!