[TYPO3-dev] Proper usage of lang::getLL()?

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

Francois Suter schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> Yesterday I committed a patch to the core which removed quite a few 
> hardcoded labels. One thing kept me wondering: all calls to 
> $GLOBALS['LANG]->getLL() use the second parameter set to "true". This 
> will trigger a call to htmlspecialchars().
> 
> As far as I could see most calls to lang:getLL() in the BE do not use 
> this parameter set to true (actually it can be omitted and defaults to 
> 0). And I don't think we really want to have htmlspecialchars() called 
> on locallang labels, because it means we then cannot use any HTML markup 
> in them.
> 
> I'm ready to commit a follow-up patch removing this second parameter, 
> but I thought I would ask for advice/opinions first.
> 

isn't that also charset specific? Say, if i'm on utf-8 i don't need it 
as i can use strings like "äöüß" direct, but if i'm on latin i would 
need htmlspecialchars

HTML tags are used with htmlspecialchars already like <tag>

vg Steffen