/**
* Will convert the input strings special chars (all above 127) to entities.
* The string is expected to be encoded in the charset, $this->charSet
* This function is used to create strings that can be used in the Click Menu
* (Context Sensitive Menus). The reason is that the values that are dynamically
* written into the <div> layer is decoded as iso-8859-1 no matter what charset
* is used in the document otherwise (only MSIE, Mozilla is OK).
* So by converting we by-pass this problem.
*
* @param string Input string
* @return string Output string
* @access public
*/
public function makeEntities($str)
{
// Convert string to UTF-8:
if ($this->charSet != 'utf-8') {
$str = $this->csConvObj->utf8_encode($str, $this->charSet);
}
// Convert string back again, but using the full entity conversion:
return $this->csConvObj->utf8_to_entities($str);
}
