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how to prevent this in codeigniter. The user may still wish to type this in so xss filtering is not an option

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striptags?
htmlentities?

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Thanks my issue was that htmlentitites wasn't properly escaping the £ sign.

I thought it was a real ballache to write

htmlentities($string,ENQUOTES,"UTF-8");

in all my views. So I have created my own helper function which wraps it up.

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OK solved?

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