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Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters [message #181175 is a reply to message #181172]

Fri, 19 April 2013 22:26

Christoph Becker
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Jim Higgins wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:38:02 +0200, in
> <kkrvda$od5$1(at)speranza(dot)aioe(dot)org>, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69(at)gmx(dot)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).

> Rather than do
> replacement I'd just like to detect and give them an error message
> telling them to use their keyboard zero vs Alt Key plus numeric pad to
> create special characters.
>
>
>>> Is there a simple way in PHP to restrict input to the ASCII Character
>>> set, specifically hex 0x20 - 0x7E ? Or a simple way to detect
>>> characters outside this range before committing them to the database?
>>
>> If you're dealing with a numeric column, you may consider checking for
>> is_numeric().
>
>
> Thank you. That will solve half the problem - the case where data is
> numeric only. The other half of the issue is string fields containing
> mixed alpha/numeric.

Then you should have a look at the answers of Arno
(<news:5171A6C4(dot)7010706(at)arnowelzel(dot)de>) and Thomas
(<news:62120436(dot)b0HzOcHmYY(at)PointedEars(dot)de>), who recommend using
ctype_print() resp. the regular expression '/[^\0x00-\x7F]/'.

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Christoph M. Becker

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		Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:16
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Lew Pitcher on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Daniel Pitts on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:30
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 21:38
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:11
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 19 April 2013 16:48
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 21:46
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:00
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 19 April 2013 23:23
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Fri, 19 April 2013 17:38
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 19 April 2013 20:33
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Fri, 19 April 2013 21:08
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 19 April 2013 23:12
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Mon, 22 April 2013 11:25
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 22 April 2013 11:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:08
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 15:52
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jim Higgins on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:06
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Fri, 19 April 2013 22:26
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 19 April 2013 23:53
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Sat, 20 April 2013 00:36
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 20 April 2013 00:58
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Christoph Becker on Sat, 20 April 2013 01:34
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Fri, 19 April 2013 20:19
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 08:04
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:15
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:26
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:34
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:41
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:43
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 12:55
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 20 April 2013 13:04
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 19:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 00:03
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 21 April 2013 04:51
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 21 April 2013 04:57
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 12:45
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Tim Streater on Sun, 21 April 2013 14:09
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 14:29
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 12:44
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 20 April 2013 14:07
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 April 2013 00:06
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 15:43
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 16:01
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: M. Strobel on Sat, 20 April 2013 16:17
		Address munging (was: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters) By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 20 April 2013 16:23
		OT: Address munging (was: Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters) By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 20 April 2013 19:25
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Denis McMahon on Sat, 20 April 2013 22:06
		Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 22 April 2013 12:10

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