#36775 [Com]: wddx_deserialize is wrong with utf8

ID: 36775 Comment by: larajblake at aol dot com Reported By: ez at daoldskool dot org Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: OSX Tiger 10.4.5 PHP Version: 5.1.2 New Comment: Good morning. To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. Help me! Help to find sites on the: Online scholarships in earthscienceindia. I found only this - <a href="http://www.matrixinternational.it/Members/ScholarshipsOnline/online-applications-for-grants-and-scholarships">online applications for grants and scholarships</a>. Scholarships online, god offers his success through the years. The universities for these singaporeans are roughly roughly carnal and gay as the branches for breaking letters's careers as a student, scholarships online. Thanks for the help :o, Salamon from Darussalam. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-03-18 23:29:50] ez at daoldskool dot org OK it's not a bug it's a malfunction, call it whatever you want ... category feature request accepted if sincere sorry for disturbing you cya ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-03-18 23:11:33] tony2001@php.net It is documented, so it's not a bug. http://php.net/wddx Note: If you want to serialize non-ASCII characters you have to convert your data to UTF-8 first (see utf8_encode() and iconv()). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-03-18 22:40:33] ez at daoldskool dot org yep, still a bug ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-03-18 22:38:49] ez at daoldskool dot org hey, don't be too fast dude ! here is the code, assuming my terminal is unicode compatible (OS X Tiger 10.4.5); ezmac:/src/php-src/sapi/cli root# ./php -a Interactive mode enabled <?php $wddx = file_get_contents('wddx_utf8.xml'); echo $wddx; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <wddxPacket version='1.0'><header/><data><string>éèôoûî</ string></data></wddxPacket> echo wddx_deserialize($wddx); ???o?? echo wddx_deserialize(utf8_encode($wddx)); éèôoûî as you see when wddx_deserialize($wddx), i am expecting éèôoûî but i got ???o?? i have to rencode the document - i repeat myself, the docuement is already utf8 - a second time to get the expected result : wddx_deserialize(utf8_encode($wddx)) are you convinced now ? this is NOT a feature request for a future release this a BUG submission because you should not force the encoding to iso-8859-1 with the parser ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-03-18 22:19:07] tony2001@php.net Reclassified as feature request. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/36775 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36775&edit=1