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Just so happens I came across this issue recently and have a fix. BBEdit, for instance, has a setting in its Preferences for 'Auto-indent', which it defines as follows: 'When this option is selected, pressing the Return key in new windows automatically inserts spaces or tabs to indent the new line to the same level as the previous line. BBEdit started as a coding and development environment but quickly gained a following as a writing app (especially among the blogging set). Update: If the string you are parsing is a serialized data string, string lengths specified in this data will need to be updated after you remove non-UTF8 characters, otherwise you will not be able to unserialize this data. reject overly long 3 byte sequences and UTF-16 surrogates and replace with ? reject overly long 2 byte sequences, as well as characters above U+10000 and replace with ?
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The preg_replace just rips out any non-UTF8 character based on it’s byte sequence and replaces it with a question mark.įrom that article above, I use the following code to remove any non-UTF8 characters. Some of the PHP functions, like iconv, still let some non-UTF8 characters through which breaks the parser.
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I had some character that the parser does not know how to interput because it was outside the byte range of the UTF8 format. Then I found this excellent explanation of using UTF8 with PHP, which is well worth a read.Įncoding gives me a headache but from this explanation this is how I see it. I found a number of solutions to this that did not work for me, namely using iconv and utf8_encode. Unfortunately, PHP’s XML and JSON parsers do not ignore non-UTF8 characters, but rather they stop and throw a rather unhelpful error. If you have come across the cursed ‘ Invalid Character‘ error while using PHP’s XML or JSON parser then you may be interested in this.