+ /**
+ * Decode any character references, numeric or named entities,
+ * in the next and normalize the resulting string. (bug 14952)
+ *
+ * This is useful for page titles, not for text to be displayed,
+ * MediaWiki allows HTML entities to escape normalization as a feature.
+ *
+ * @param $text String (already normalized, containing entities)
+ * @return String (still normalized, without entities)
+ */
+ public static function decodeCharReferencesAndNormalize( $text ) {
+ global $wgContLang;
+ $text = preg_replace_callback(
+ MW_CHAR_REFS_REGEX,
+ array( 'Sanitizer', 'decodeCharReferencesCallback' ),
+ $text, /* limit */ -1, $count );
+
+ if ( $count ) {
+ return $wgContLang->normalize( $text );
+ } else {
+ return $text;
+ }
+ }
+