#47018 [NEW]: mb_detect_encoding doesn´t detect

From: joao dot rebelo at pchouse dot pt Operating system: Windows XP SP3 PHP version: 5.2.8 PHP Bug Type: ICONV related Bug description: mb_detect_encoding doesn´t detect Description: ------------ mb_detect_encoding always detect the input string encode as the first in the encoding list supplied, in this case because the first in the list is UTF-8 always detect as UTF-8, even if the string is in another encode, if no encoding list is supplied always detect as ASCII. Reproduce code: --------------- function conv2latin($values2conv){ $encode = mb_detect_encoding($vl2conv, 'utf-8, ISO-8859-1', true); if(is_array($values2conv)){ foreach($values2conv as $key2conv=>$vl2conv){ $encode = mb_detect_encoding($vl2conv); if( strtoupper($encode) != "ISO-8859-1"){ $vl2conv = iconv($encode, 'ISO-8859-1', $vl2conv); } $return[$key2conv]=$vl2conv; } }elseif(!empty($values2conv)){ $encode = mb_detect_encoding($vl2conv); if( strtoupper($encode) != "ISO-8859-1" ){ $return = iconv($encode, 'ISO-8859-1', $values2conv); } } return $return; return $values2conv; }//end function Expected result: ---------------- The function is pretending to return the string as is if the input string is in ISO-8859-1 if not is pretending to convert the string from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 and return the converted string. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47018&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47018&r=mysqlcfg