Revert "Added a function for handling HTML special characters"

This reverts commit b47fc647.

laravel/html.php

@@ -45,19 +45,6 @@ class HTML {
 		return html_entity_decode($value, ENT_QUOTES, Config::get('application.encoding'));
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Convert HTML special characters.
-	 * 
-	 * The encoding specified in the application configuration file will be used.
-	 * 
-	 * @param  string $value
-	 * @return string
-	 */
-	public static function specialchars($value)
-	{
-		return htmlspecialchars($value, ENT_QUOTES, Config::get('application.encoding', false));
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Generate a link to a JavaScript file.
 	 *