MDL-22896 libraries: Updated regular expression in html2text, for rep…

…lacing unknown/unhandled entities
Mrmoodle · Feb 24, 2012 · 59c8116 · 59c8116
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diff --git a/lib/html2text.php b/lib/html2text.php
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ function _convert()
         $text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
 
         // Remove unknown/unhandled entities (this cannot be done in search-and-replace block)
-        $text = preg_replace('/&[^&;]+;/i', '', $text);
+        $text = preg_replace('/&([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,6}|#[0-9]{2,4});/', '', $text);
 
         // Strip any other HTML tags
         $text = strip_tags($text, $this->allowed_tags);