From: Zach Copley <zach@controlyourself.ca>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:19:33 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Only kill control and surrogates, leave UTF-8 formatting chars alone.
X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ab2946047cd08c6b66cbc57410fa8a99430530f6;p=quix0rs-gnu-social.git

Only kill control and surrogates, leave UTF-8 formatting chars alone.
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diff --git a/lib/util.php b/lib/util.php
index a43666fa5c..11f0f297e0 100644
--- a/lib/util.php
+++ b/lib/util.php
@@ -581,10 +581,8 @@ function common_shorten_link($url, $reverse = false)
 
 function common_xml_safe_str($str)
 {
-    $xmlStr = htmlentities(iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', $str), ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8');
-
-    // Replace control, formatting, and surrogate characters with '*', ala Twitter
-    return preg_replace('/[\p{Cc}\p{Cf}\p{Cs}]/u', '*', $str);
+    // Neutralize control codes and surrogates
+	return preg_replace('/[\p{Cc}\p{Cs}]/u', '*', $str);
 }
 
 function common_tag_link($tag)