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safe_strftime
// -------------------------------------------------------------
// Format a time, respecting the locale and local time zone,
// and make sure the output string is safe for UTF-8
function safe_strftime($format, $time='', $gmt=0, $override_locale='')
{
global $locale;
$old_locale = $locale;
if (!$time)
$time = time();
# we could add some other formats here
if ($format == 'iso8601' or $format == 'w3cdtf') {
$format = '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ';
$gmt = 1;
}
elseif ($format == 'rfc822') {
$format = '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT';
$gmt = 1;
$override_locale = 'en-gb';
}
if ($override_locale)
getlocale($override_locale);
if ($format == 'since')
$str = since($time);
elseif ($gmt)
$str = gmstrftime($format, $time);
else
$str = strftime($format, $time + tz_offset($time));
@list($lang, $charset) = explode('.', $locale);
if (empty($charset))
$charset = 'ISO-8859-1';
//elseif (IS_WIN and is_numeric($charset))
elseif ((IS_WIN and is_numeric($charset)) || in_array(intval($charset), array(1251 ,1252), true))
// Score -1 for consistent naming conventions
$charset = 'Windows-'.$charset;
if ($charset != 'UTF-8' and $format != 'since') {
$new = '';
/*if (is_callable('iconv')) {
$new = @iconv($charset, 'UTF-8', $str);
}*/
if(is_callable('mb_convert_encoding')) {
ini_set('mbstring.substitute_character', "none");
$new= mb_convert_encoding($str, 'UTF-8', $charset);
}
if ($new)
$str = $new;
elseif (is_callable('utf8_encode'))
$str = utf8_encode($str);
}
# revert to the old locale
if ($override_locale)
$locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, $old_locale);
return $str;
}
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