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Hello there,
after building a website i found following issue while handling with UTF-8 characters like german umlauts, etc.
My config files are all proper set and the headers of my documents are correctly set so UTF-8.
The problem I had, was, while submitting a form, the CI-Form-validator showed a Required-message, as if there was no input. This was because the input class uses the function "clean_string()" of the UTF-8 class for security reasons, but which returns an empty string, if there are chars like € or ä.
e.g.
Code:
echo $this->utf8->clean_string('abcdefg'); // prints correctly 'abcdefg'
echo $this->utf8->clean_string('äbcd€fg'); // prints nothing
Why is this so? Why does CI remove all UTF-8 related characters in his UTF-8 class?
Any ideas to fix this?
Thanks!
bubinsk
PS: I'm running PHP 5.3.5 with MAMP on a mac machine with the latest CI build.
