How to work around the Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! error with WP-Postviews

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I don’t remember exactly where I found this little hack or I would have put the usual google query with a link to the source in this post. So whoever you are out there, thank you. I love the WP-Postviews plugin, but I found out after some Googling that it does not work with PHP 4 (only PHP 5). You will get the following error:

MBCS in html_entity_decode()!

Fortunately, if your site uses utf-8 encoding you can use the following one line hack to work around the PHP 4 incompatibility.

Make sure you make a backup of your wp-postviews.php file before you edit it.

-Open up wp-postviews.php in your favorite text editor.

-Look for the following line:

$text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES, get_option('blog_charset'));

-Replace the line with the following:

$text = utf8_decode($text);

That’s it! WP-Postviews should work perfectly now. It did for me at least . Thanks for the awesome plugin Lester!

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