#39261 [Asn->Bgs]: strftime chops characters with utf-8

ID: 39261 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: mehmetyucel at gmail dot com -Status: Assigned +Status: Bogus -Bug Type: Output Control +Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: MS Windows 2003 ES/Fedora Core 5 PHP Version: 5.1.6 Assigned To: derick New Comment: strftime() behaves depending in the OS. As far as I can see it's not even a bug and it's just how Windows handles locales and selects utf8 when it feels like. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-10-26 11:42:35] mehmetyucel at gmail dot com 5.2 snapshot solved the issue on linux, but problem still exists for windows. Somehow setlocale sets output encoding of strftime. Following works as a temporary solution for window env. iconv("ISO-8859-9","UTF-8",strftime("%d %B %Y %A",strtotime("2006-10-26"))); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-10-26 09:17:01] tony2001@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php5.2-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5.2-win32-latest.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-10-26 02:16:43] mehmetyucel at gmail dot com Description: ------------ If the localization that is set by setlocale has non ISO-8859-1 characters strftime destroys these. Reproducable on both Fedora Core 5 and Windows 2003 Enterprise Server tested for 2 languages (Spanish / Turkish) Reproduce code: --------------- header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); setlocale(LC_TIME,"spanish"); echo strftime("%d %B %Y %A",strtotime("2006-10-28"))."<br>"; setlocale(LC_TIME,"turkish"); echo strftime("%d %B %Y %A",strtotime("2006-10-26"))."<br>"; echo strftime("%d %B %Y %A",strtotime("2006-10-25"))."<br>"; Expected result: ---------------- 28 octubre 2006 sábado 26 Ekim 2006 Per&#351;embe 25 Ekim 2006 Çar&#351;amba Actual result: -------------- 28 octubre 2006 s&#6305;do 26 Ekim 2006 Per?r>25 Ekim 2006 &#481;r?r> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=39261&edit=1