Umlauts being replaced by FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS

[goforthanddie]

Hi there,

when using umlauts like äöü in the fields for first or last name (probably also an issue in other fields, but this is where i noticed it) they are replaced by their corresponding HTML equivalent ä, ö , ü respectively. This ends up in the LDAP and I think it is due to using FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS e.g. here: https://github.com/wheelybird/ldap-user-manager/blob/ce92321285129d34d44ba1babe72b4d09e893a44/www/account_manager/new_user.php#L77 but also in other places.
Is it possible to use FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS instead or was there any specific thought why FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS is required?

Thanks

Samy

[wheelybird]

Thanks for reporting this. I'm working on a major new version and hope to support unicode and use ldap_escape etc. to sanitise input. Hopefully this will be released in the next few weeks.

[goforthanddie]

that sounds great :) I'll be looking forward for the new version then. thx!

[darabi]

Duplicate of #167 and #181 (I was about to open a new one 😉).

@wheelybird: nice to hear that you'll release a new version and I guess you're probably aware of these forks which include some great improvements which you might be interested in:

• mrjk
• PinguTS