wp-includes/class-wpdb.php:3748Strips any invalid characters from the string for a given table and column.
$tablestring$columnstring$valuestringstring|WP_Error public function strip_invalid_text_for_column( $table, $column, $value ) { if ( ! is_string( $value ) ) { return $value; } $charset = $this->get_col_charset( $table, $column ); if ( ! $charset ) { // Not a string column. return $value; } elseif ( is_wp_error( $charset ) ) { // Bail on real errors. return $charset; } $data = array( $column => array( 'value' => $value, 'charset' => $charset, 'length' => $this->get_col_length( $table, $column ), ), ); $data = $this->strip_invalid_text( $data ); if ( is_wp_error( $data ) ) { return $data; } return $data[ $column ]['value']; }Introduced in 4.2.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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