#47146 [NEW]: htmlentities function doesn't convert german umlauts correctly

From: teiseller at gmx dot de Operating system: Windows XP SP2 PHP version: 5.2.8 PHP Bug Type: Strings related Bug description: htmlentities function doesn't convert german umlauts correctly Description: ------------ the function htmlentities($string) does not convert german umlauts to the coresponding html entity. For example, an "ü" is convertet into "ü" instead of ü. Reproduce code: --------------- just perform the htmlentities function on any string containing a german umlaut, e.g. ä ü ö Expected result: ---------------- it should return the string with the following substitutes: ä ---> ä ü ---> ü ö ---> ö Ä ---> Ä Ü ---> Ü Ö ---> Ö Actual result: -------------- it returns cryptic chars for these characters, like "ü" (without the "") -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47146&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47146&r=mysqlcfg