Implement multi-language string-sanitization framework utilizing JSON file?

[minimaxir]

Implement multi-language string-sanitization framework utilizing JSON file?

[ssokolow]

It's not that simple. Often, problems arise after the sanitization/validation stage based on how the components of the systems interact and, if you just strip characters like that, you wind up with Fanfiction.net converting 100% to 100 in posted chapters or various sites converting O'Henry to OHenry in form fields.

Languages already have libraries for sanitizing stuff that's truly problematic and, for the rest, you really need functional tests which feed the data through the entire process to verify that it produced the proper effects. (And blns.json is specifically intended as easy-to-use input for those case-specific tests once you've written them.)

However, what would help is harnesses like the one I wrote for testing the heuristics in https://github.com/ssokolow/game_launcher where it's one test which, on failure, prints out a chart of all of the inputs which didn't produce the expected outputs.

Good point... I may fork the repo and try some tests regarding this (In javascript), but I had an idea of a more or less customizable library, that can selectively filter out the categories stored in the BLNS files (e.g. Reserved Words, Numeric, etc.) so it can be customized for each use.