get_html_translation_table Returns the translation table used by htmlspecialchars and htmlentities Description arrayget_html_translation_table inttable intquote_style get_html_translation_table will return the translation table that is used internally for htmlspecialchars and htmlentities. There are two new constants (HTML_ENTITIES, HTML_SPECIALCHARS) that allow you to specify the table you want. Default value for table is HTML_SPECIALCHARS. And as in the htmlspecialchars and htmlentities functions you can optionally specify the quote_style you are working with. The default is ENT_COMPAT mode. See the description of these modes in htmlspecialchars. Special characters can be encoded in several ways. E.g. " can be encoded as ", " or &#x22. get_html_translation_table returns only the most common form for them. Translation Table Example & Krämer"; $encoded = strtr($str, $trans); ?> ]]> The $encoded variable will now contain: "Hallo & <Frau> & Krämer". See also htmlspecialchars, htmlentities, and html_entity_decode.