[Owncloud] XML-Error list files with german umlauts

[Robin]

On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 19:11:51 Reinhard Schneidewind wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> just got an xml-error in with german umlauts and firefox. Firefox says
> "not defined entity" (translated from german error message).
> So I took a look at files/get_files.php and saw the problem. The
> function htmlentities is used to encode special characters, but in xml
> these are not specified.
> Because owncloud uses utf8 as charset for the html-pages it is not
> necessary to escape special characters. This means it would be
> enough to escape xml-related characters (|'&', '"', "'", '<', '>','\'',)
> for xml attribute values.
> 
> In this case the utf8tohtml function would be unnecessary.
> 
> Please try the attached patch with german umlauts or other special
> characters and compare it with the original version.
> 
> Regards, schnere
I was thinking of using json for that in the future, do you know anything 
about how json handles utf8 or other non-ascii characters?

Anyway, thanks for you path, I will use it if it remains necessary

 - Robin Appelman