Bug #18521: htmlentities with charset iso-8859-7 anomalies

From: spud@nothingness.org Operating system: Linux (RedHat 7.2) PHP version: 4.2.2 PHP Bug Type: Strings related Bug description: htmlentities with charset iso-8859-7 anomalies PHP compiled with: ./configure --with-config-file-path=/usr/local --with-mysql --with-gd --with-gettext=/usr/bin --with-jpeg-dir --with-png-dir --with-tiff-dir --with-ttf --with--enable-bcmath --enable-inline-optimization --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-trans-sid --enable-shared-pdflib --with-regex=system --with-zlib --with-curl=/usr/include --enable-sockets --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs I have been attempting to internationalize my PHP application (specifically to support Greek). Data is stored in MySQL, and displayed on the page using nl2br(htmlentities($body)) For internationalization, I changed this to nl2br(htmlentities($body,ENT_COMPAT,'ISO-8859-7')) ...but the Greek text appears on the page as accented Latin 1 characters, rather than Greek. (This line is the only "short script" necessary to reproduce the problem, as long as the $body variable contains Greek text). If I use htmlspecialchars() instead, still indicating the charset, the text appears fine (in Greek). If I simply use nl2br($body) it also appears in Greek (but won't, obviously, escape any special characters). So its appears to be directly related to htmlentities(). The web page itself contains a META header indicating content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7" ...so the page should know what charset to expect, and shouldn't be part of the problem. This bug was also present in PHP 4.2.1. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18521&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18521&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18521&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18521&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18521&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18521&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18521&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18521&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18521&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18521&r=globals