InputFilter fails on cleaning string with HEX entities as string

[AlterBrains]

Summary of Changes

InputFilter::clean($string, 'string') fails when decoding the entities with HEX numbers

Testing Instructions

Execute the code:

$filter = \Joomla\CMS\Filter\InputFilter::getInstance();
var_dump($filter->clean('ÿ', 'string'));
die;

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

See error chr(): Argument #1 ($codepoint) must be of type int, string given

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

No errors.

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[exlemor]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on fee33cb

Hi AlterBrains, I have tested this successfully.

It yields the answer of: string(2) "ÿ" so if that is expected - perfect.

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[richard67]

I've restored @exlemor 's test result in the issue tracker so it's properly counted again. The commits which have invalidated the count were just clean branch updates.

It yields the answer of: string(2) "ÿ" so if that is expected - perfect.

@exlemor Yes, that character fits to the Unicode character given as hexadecimal number. See e.g. https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/tryit.asp?deci=255&ent=yuml .

[richard67]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 3d3e148

Works as described. In addition, I've tested that decimal values like 'ÿ' and entity names like 'ÿ' continue to work as before.

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[richard67]

RTC

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[MacJoom]

Thank you!