Htmlspecialchars does not work with variable passed

Question

I'm using htmlspecialchars to display Greek letters correctly in my html. For that reason I have:

$array = array('sampleGreekString' => 'Ενδιαφερόμαστε για το φορτίο σας')

When I call the function like this:

htmlspecialchars('Ενδιαφερόμαστε για το φορτίο σας')

it works fine and all letters are shown correctly. But when I call it this way:

htmlspecialchars($array['sampleGreekString']);

on the screen are shown only question marks (?). How can I fix this?

I found the real problem. I am using included php file. There is the array with Greek words. When I include it in my view and call htmlspecialchars($array['greekWord']) on the screen are displayed question marks. The problem disappears when the array is defined in the view file. So this is the real problem. Can anybody help with this? — Isadora, Sep 10 '15 at 19:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 10 '15 at 18:08

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suppose u have array like this:

$array = array('sampleGreekString' => 'Ενδιαφερόμαστε για το φορτίο σας');

then try the code this way:

function filter(&$value) {
  $value = htmlspecialchars($value, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
}
array_walk_recursive($array, "filter");

The above code applies htmlspecialchars to all the array elements.

answered Sep 10 '15 at 18:08

Peyman.H

@Isadora I tried echo $array['sampleGreekString'] in an script and it worked just fine. Do u use in your view? – Peyman.H Sep 10 '15 at 18:17
Yes, it is in my head tag – Isadora Sep 10 '15 at 18:18

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