UTF-8 encoding cleanups

api/api_functions.php

@@ -23,12 +23,6 @@ function return_json_response($data, $response_code=200) {
     die(json_encode($data));
 }
 
-
-function is_valid_utf8($text) {
-    return mb_check_encoding($text, 'utf-8');
-}
-
-
 function get_db_connection($fetch_mode=NULL, $options=NULL) {
     if($options == NULL) {
         $options = array(
@@ -133,9 +127,6 @@ function get_user_data($ids) {
                 $u_groups = explode(",",$value);
                 foreach($u_groups as $g) {
                     list($id,$name) = explode(";", $g);
-                    if( !is_valid_utf8($name) ) {
-                        $name = utf8_encode($name);
-                    }
                     if($id == $ACTIVE_GROUP_ID) {
                         $is_active = "1";
                     }
@@ -153,10 +144,6 @@ function get_user_data($ids) {
                 }
                 $result[$key] = _get_cards($value);
             }
-            /* Encoding issues? oh yes, utf-8 please */
-            elseif( !is_valid_utf8($value) ) {
-                $result[$key] = utf8_encode($value);
-            }
         }
         $result['is_active'] = $is_active;
         $results[] = $result;

api/groups.php

@@ -17,23 +17,11 @@ $sql = "SELECT g.name as group_name, g.id as group_id, g.posix_group, g.mailingl
     ORDER BY g.name";
 $res = $conn->getAll($sql);
 
-/* Encode */
-$results = array();
-foreach($res as $result) {
-    foreach($result as $key => $value) {
-        /* Encoding issues? oh yes, utf-8 please */
-        if(is_string($value)) {
-            $result[$key] = utf8_encode($value);
-        }
-    }
-    $results[] = $result;
-}
-
 if( DB::isError($res) ) {
     set_response_code(500);
     echo json_encode(array('error' => $res->getMessage().". DEBUG: ".$res->getDebugInfo()));
     die();
 }
-echo json_encode(array('results' => $results));
+echo json_encode(array('results' => $res));
 
 ?>

api/username.php

@@ -29,6 +29,4 @@ if( DB::isError($res) ) {
 }
 $userExists = $res->numRows() > 0;
 
-echo json_encode(array('result' => $userExists));
-
-?>
+echo json_encode(array('result' => $userExists));

api/zipcode.php

@@ -42,4 +42,3 @@ if( count($res) === 1 ) {
         'result' => ""
     ));
 }
-?>