Htmlspecialchars with Exception <br> tag

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Hi,

I need to use Htmlspecialchars for decoding some weird chars like ä,ö,ü otherwise they are shown wrong.
But the problem is, that I dont want to decode “br” tag, because it should be literally printed out like this.

I have an array, which contains such weid chars and br tag. I want to decode the weird chars, but not decode the br tag.

How do I do?

Same problem like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7353718/why-are-my-br-tags-getting-converted-to-ltbr-gt?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

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Try nl2br() after decoding.

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Did you set the character set for your html page? UTF-8 should be able to display those characters.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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I’m not very sure, but I will look now and reply back to you as soon as possible.

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Okay solved the problem. First of all, it was xml file whiches format was encoded in br tags anyway. I should have looked into the xml files.

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