#49575 [NEW]: iconv function fails if you try to convert one character set into the same set

From: me at mikearsenault dot com Operating system: Linux PHP version: 5.2SVN-2009-09-17 (SVN) PHP Bug Type: ICONV related Bug description: iconv function fails if you try to convert one character set into the same set Description: ------------ If you try to convert one character set into the same character set using this function, it causes a 500 internal server error that shows up in the logs as: [error] [client XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] Premature end of script headers: myscript.php Reproduce code: --------------- $charset = "ISO-8859-1"; try { $i= iconv($charset, "ISO-8859-1", "123321ksdjvskjdfksdfbasbdaSDjhdb"); echo $i; } catch (Exception $e) { echo 'Caught exception: ', $e->getMessage(), "\n"; } Expected result: ---------------- 123321ksdjvskjdfksdfbasbdaSDjhdb Actual result: -------------- 500 Internal Server Error -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49575&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49575&r=mysqlcfg