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+<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
+/**
+ * CodeIgniter
+ *
+ * An open source application development framework for PHP 4.3.2 or newer
+ *
+ * @package		CodeIgniter
+ * @author		ExpressionEngine Dev Team
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2010, EllisLab, Inc.
+ * @license		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/license.html
+ * @link		http://codeigniter.com
+ * @since		Version 1.0
+ * @filesource
+ */
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Output Class
+ *
+ * Responsible for sending final output to browser
+ *
+ * @package		CodeIgniter
+ * @subpackage	Libraries
+ * @category	Unicode
+ * @author		ExpressionEngine Dev Team
+ * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/unicode.html
+ */
+class CI_Unicode {
+
+	/**
+	 * Constructor
+	 * 
+	 * Determines if UTF-8 support is to be enabled
+	 * 
+	 */
+	function CI_Unicode()
+	{
+		log_message('debug', "Unicode Class Initialized");
+		
+		global $CFG;
+
+		if (
+			preg_match('/./u', 'é') === 1					// PCRE must support UTF-8
+			AND function_exists('iconv')					// iconv must be installed
+			AND ini_get('mbstring.func_overload') != 1		// Multibyte string function overloading cannot be enabled
+			AND $CFG->item('charset') == 'UTF-8'			// Application charset must be UTF-8
+			)
+		{
+			log_message('debug', "Unicode Class - UTF-8 Support Enabled");
+			
+			define('UTF8_ENABLED', TRUE);
+
+			// set internal encoding for multibyte string functions if necessary
+			// and set a flag so we don't have to repeatedly use extension_loaded()
+			// or function_exists()
+			if (extension_loaded('mbstring'))
+			{
+				define('MB_ENABLED', TRUE);
+				mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				define('MB_ENABLED', FALSE);
+			}
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			log_message('debug', "Unicode Class - UTF-8 Support Disabled");
+			define('UTF8_ENABLED', FALSE);
+		}		
+	}
+	
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+	
+	/**
+	 * Clean UTF-8 strings
+	 *
+	 * Ensures strings are UTF-8
+	 *
+	 * @access	public
+	 * @param	string
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	function clean_string($str)
+	{
+		if ($this->_is_ascii($str) === FALSE)
+		{
+			$str = @iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', $str);
+		}
+		
+		return $str;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+	
+	/**
+	 * Remove ASCII control characters
+	 *
+	 * Removes all ASCII control characters except horizontal tabs,
+	 * line feeds, and carriage returns, as all others can cause
+	 * problems in XML
+	 * 
+	 * @access	public
+	 * @param	string
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	function safe_ascii_for_xml($str)
+	{
+		return preg_replace('/[\x00-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x7F]+/S', '', $str);
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+	
+	/**
+	 * Convert to UTF-8
+	 *
+	 * Attempts to convert a string to UTF-8
+	 *
+	 * @access	public
+	 * @param	string
+	 * @param	string	- input encoding
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	function convert_to_utf8($str, $encoding)
+	{
+		if (function_exists('iconv'))
+		{
+			$str = @iconv($encoding, 'UTF-8', $str);
+		}
+		elseif (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding'))
+		{
+			$str = @mb_convert_encoding($str, 'UTF-8', $encoding);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			return FALSE;
+		}
+		
+		return $str;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+	
+	/**
+	 * Is ASCII?
+	 *
+	 * Tests if a string is standard 7-bit ASCII or not
+	 *
+	 * @access	public
+	 * @param	string
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	function _is_ascii($str)
+	{
+		return (preg_match('/[^\x00-\x7F]/S', $str) == 0);
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+	
+}
+// End Unicode Class
+
+/* End of file Unicode.php */
+/* Location: ./system/core/Unicode.php */
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