From e057193de0d3eb9370605cd8d67d6df1beeb1c7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carlos <carlos@kolabs.co>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 01:21:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added function for converting html special characters.
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With entities there are problems encoding characters in other languages, for example á, ó, in spanish will become special characters.
---
 laravel/html.php | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/laravel/html.php b/laravel/html.php
index d1f199aa..109d459a 100644
--- a/laravel/html.php
+++ b/laravel/html.php
@@ -45,6 +45,19 @@ class HTML {
 		return html_entity_decode($value, ENT_QUOTES, Config::get('application.encoding'));
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Convert HTML special characters.
+	 *
+	 * The encoding specified in the application configuration file will be used.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $value
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public static function specialchars($value)
+	{
+		return htmlspecialchars($value, ENT_QUOTES, Config::get('application.encoding'), false);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Generate a link to a JavaScript file.
 	 *