#46335 [Opn->Bgs]: DOMText::splitText doesn't handle multibyte characters

ID: 46335 Updated by: tularis@php.net Reported By: sites at hubmed dot org -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: DOM XML related Operating System: OS X PHP Version: 5.2.6 New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php in PHP < 6, this is expected behaviour. PHP < 6 just isn't unicode-aware by default. It should work in PHP 6 however. If not, let us know. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-10-17 17:10:20] sites at hubmed dot org Description: ------------ Using the DOMText function splitText() on a text node containing multibyte characters results in the node being split at the wrong position. Reproduce code: --------------- $text = 'This is an ‘example’ of using DOM splitText'; $start = 30; $length = 3; $dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8'); $node = $dom->createTextNode($text); $dom->appendChild($node); print "Text: $node->textContent\n"; print 'Expected (mb_substr): ' . mb_substr($text, $start, $length, 'UTF-8') . "\n"; $matched = $node->splitText($start); $matched->splitText($length); print "Actual (splitText): $matched->textContent\n"; Expected result: ---------------- Text: This is an ‘example’ of using DOM splitText Expected (mb_substr): DOM Actual (splitText): DOM Actual result: -------------- Text: This is an ‘example’ of using DOM splitText Expected (mb_substr): DOM Actual (splitText): ing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=46335&edit=1