Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters

From	Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters
Date	2013-04-20 02:36 +0200
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 4/19/2013 6:26 PM, Christoph Becker wrote:
>> Jim Higgins wrote:
>>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:38:02 +0200, in
>>> <kkrvda$od5$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jim Higgins wrote:
>>>>> I have a problem with people entering a slashed zero vs a standard
>>>>> ASCII zero into HTML forms intended to store data in a MySQL database.
>>>>
>>>> Is it really a slashed zero (U+0030 U+0338) they're entering, or do
>>>> they
>>>> enter some similar looking character such as the Danish Ø?  In the
>>>> former case you can simply replace the slashed zero with a standard
>>>> zero.  Assuming UTF-8 encoding:
>>>>
>>>>   $input = str_replace('\xCC\xB8', '', $input);
>>>
>>>
>>> It's usually 0x41 0x7E, but sometimes 0xD8.
>>
>> 0xD8 is Ø in ISO-8859-1 for example; I do not know which character
>> encoding represents the same or a similar character as 0x41 0x7E.
>> Anyway, ISTM you're missing to enforce a particular character encoding
>> for your document (see <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html> for
>> HTML 4.01 documents).
>>
> 
> This is a recommendation only.  The browser is free to ignore it.  There
> is no way to force a browser to do anything in HTML.

The mentioned W3C recommendation also elaborates on the "charset"
parameter of the "Content-Type" header, which should be respected by all
user agents conforming to RFC 2616, if they have requested the URI with
a suitable "Accept-Charset" header.  Otherwise the PHP script may
respond with "406 Not acceptable" (and a body explaining the requirements).

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

Thread

Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jim Higgins <ILikeMy@Privacy.bogus> - 2013-04-19 16:16 +0000
  Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2013-04-19 12:29 -0400
  Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-04-19 09:30 -0700
    Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jim Higgins <ILikeMy@Privacy.bogus> - 2013-04-19 21:38 +0000
      Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jim Higgins <ILikeMy@Privacy.bogus> - 2013-04-19 22:11 +0000
  Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-19 12:48 -0400
    Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jim Higgins <ILikeMy@Privacy.bogus> - 2013-04-19 21:46 +0000
      Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-19 18:00 -0400
      Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-20 01:23 +0200
  Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-04-19 19:38 +0200
    Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-19 22:33 +0200
      Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-04-19 23:08 +0200
        Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-20 01:12 +0200
          Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-04-22 13:25 +0200
            Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-22 13:29 +0200
        Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-20 14:08 +0200
          Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-20 17:52 +0200
    Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jim Higgins <ILikeMy@Privacy.bogus> - 2013-04-19 22:06 +0000
      Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-04-20 00:26 +0200
        Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-19 19:53 -0400
          Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-04-20 02:36 +0200
            Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-19 20:58 -0400
              Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-04-20 03:34 +0200
  Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-04-19 22:19 +0200
  Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-04-20 10:04 +0200
    Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-20 14:15 +0200
      Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-04-20 14:26 +0200
        Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-20 14:34 +0200
        Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-04-20 14:41 +0200
          Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-20 08:43 -0400
            Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-04-20 14:55 +0200
              Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-20 09:04 -0400
                Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-04-20 21:29 +0200
                Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-20 20:03 -0400
                Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-04-21 06:51 +0200
                Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-04-21 06:57 +0200
                Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-21 08:45 -0400
                Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-04-21 15:09 +0100
                Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-21 10:29 -0400
                Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-21 08:44 -0400
              Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-20 15:07 +0100
                Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-04-20 20:06 -0400
          Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-04-20 17:43 +0200
            Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-20 18:01 +0200
              Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-04-20 18:17 +0200
                Address munging (was: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-20 18:23 +0200
            OT: Address munging (was: Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters) Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-04-20 21:25 +0200
            Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-04-20 22:06 +0000
              Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-22 14:10 +0200

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