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

ID: 41980 Updated by: tony2001@php.net Reported By: borys dot forytarz at gmail dot com -Status: Open +Status: Feedback Bug Type: DOM XML related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.2.3 New Comment: Thank you for this bug report. To properly diagnose the problem, we need a short but complete example script to be able to reproduce this bug ourselves. A proper reproducing script starts with <?php and ends with ?>, is max. 10-20 lines long and does not require any external resources such as databases, etc. If the script requires a database to demonstrate the issue, please make sure it creates all necessary tables, stored procedures etc. Please avoid embedding huge scripts into the report. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-07-12 19:24:45] borys dot forytarz at gmail dot com 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41980&edit=1