However, it was only showing up as a problem when extracting those characters out of our mysql database and when being displayed through a proxy server of ours that handles dns issues. We were having very peculiar behavior regarding foreign characters such as e-acute.
The full list of 252 entities can be found in the HTML 4.01 Spec, or you can cut and paste the function from my site. Otherwise, either convert all the named entities to numeric ones, or declare the named entities in the document's DTD. If you're producing XML, which doesn't recognise most HTML entities: When producing a UTF-8 document (the default), then htmlspecialchars(htmlentitydecode($string, ENTQUOTES, 'UTF-8'), ENTNOQUOTES, 'UTF-8') (because you only need to escape and & unless you're printing inside the XML tags themselves).
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