htmlentities and french characters
<p>I am trying to escape some users input in form. </p>

<pre><code>if( !empty($_SESSION['descr']) )
{
    $descr = htmlentities($_SESSION['descr']);
    $descr = stripslashes($descr);
    $descr = html_entity_decode($descr); 

    echo"&lt;textarea cols=\"50\" rows=\"10\" name=\"descr\" &gt;".$descr."&lt;/textarea&gt;";
}
else
{
    echo "&lt;textarea cols=\"50\" rows=\"10\" name=\"descr\" &gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;";
}
</code></pre>

<p>I didn't use html_entity_decode() in the first place then I realized if a user put some French characters then it won't show them correctly. 
Is it save to use it the way it is with html_entity_decode()?   </p>
