#41980 [NEW]: Really strang encoding problem - should work, but doesn't

From: borys dot forytarz at gmail dot com Operating system: Linux PHP version: 5.2.3 PHP Bug Type: DOM XML related Bug description: Really strang encoding problem - should work, but doesn't Description: ------------ There is a problem with DOM and encoding. I have two separate files, one full XHTML code (DTD, head, meta, body and more contents) saved in UTF-8. Meta declaration is UTF-8, server sends the code in UTF-8 too. The second file is a simple file without any DTD, head, meta and body. Saved in UTF-8 too. The problem is, when I import nodes from the second file using importNode(), in the output there are invalid encoded characters (those who were declared in the second file). It is strange because as I read, DOM works in UTF-8 so there should be not such a problem. What is more, I was debugging the properties such as actualEncoding and they shown me that there is UTF-8... If it's not a bug, but I think it is, how to fix that? I can't declare in the second file DTD, head and body elements. Reproduce code: --------------- $this->dom = new DOMDocument('1.0','UTF-8'); $this->dom->encoding = 'UTF-8'; $this->dom->formatOutput = self::$formatOutput; $this->dom->preserveWhiteSpace = self::$preserveWhiteSpace; @$this->dom->loadHtmlFile($html); ... echo $this->dom->saveXML(); The above works well for the complete XHTML file. But when I load an incomplete file (encoded in UTF-8) I don't see properly encoded characters when I import nodes from the second document to the first one. I tried to convert the whole output with iconv() and mb_convert_encoding() but it seems not to make any difference at all. Expected result: ---------------- Properly encoded characters from both complete XHTML file and second "poor" file. The second file is such as follows: <content id="something"> <h1>some string</h1> </content> Actual result: -------------- Not properly encoded characters from between <content> tag. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41980&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41980&r=mysqlcfg