Bug #52971 [Csd]: PCRE-Meta-Characters not working with utf-8

From: Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:11:01 +0000
Subject: Bug #52971 [Csd]: PCRE-Meta-Characters not working with utf-8
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 ID:                 52971
 User updated by:    marc dot bennewitz at giata dot de
 Reported by:        marc dot bennewitz at giata dot de
 Summary:            PCRE-Meta-Characters not working with utf-8
 Status:             Closed
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            PCRE related
 Operating System:   Linux
 PHP Version:        5.3.3
 Assigned To:        felipe
 Block user comment: N

 New Comment:

now it works fine :)
thanks


Previous Comments:
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[2010-10-03 18:02:19] felipe@php.net

This bug has been fixed in SVN.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

In the last version of PCRE was added a flag PCRE_UCP, as states the
doc:
"In  PCRE,  by  default, \d, \D, \s, \S, \w, and \W recognize only ASCII
characters, even in UTF-8 mode. However, this can be changed by setting
the PCRE_UCP option."

Setting the flag we got:
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    array(2) {
      [0]=>
      string(6) "Wasser"
      [1]=>
      int(61)
    }
  }
}
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    array(2) {
      [0]=>
      string(7) " Wasser"
      [1]=>
      int(60)
    }
  }
}

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[2010-10-03 18:01:40] felipe@php.net

Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of felipe
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=303963
Log: - Fixed bug #52971 (PCRE-Meta-Characters not working with utf-8)
#   In  PCRE,  by  default, \d, \D, \s, \S, \w, and \W recognize only
ASCII
#       characters, even in UTF-8 mode. However, this can be changed by
setting
#       the PCRE_UCP option.

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[2010-10-03 11:02:15] cataphract@php.net

I'm reopening as there's indeed a different behavior in Windows that I
can't yet quite explain,

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[2010-10-03 10:21:34] marc dot bennewitz at giata dot de

There are some problems with it:
1. On windows it works as expected
2. With Unicode properties there is no word boundary (\w \W)
3. With the modifier "u" php knows that the subject is UTF-8
4. http://php.net/manual/regexp.reference.escape.php
there is no note
for UTF-8 incompatibility

php.exe -i
...
iconv

iconv support => enabled
iconv implementation => "libiconv"
iconv library version => 1.11

Directive => Local Value => Master Value
iconv.input_encoding => ISO-8859-1 => ISO-8859-1
iconv.internal_encoding => ISO-8859-1 => ISO-8859-1
iconv.output_encoding => ISO-8859-1 => ISO-8859-1
...
pcre

PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) Support => enabled
PCRE Library Version => 8.02 2010-03-19

Directive => Local Value => Master Value
pcre.backtrack_limit => 100000 => 100000
pcre.recursion_limit => 100000 => 100000
...

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[2010-10-02 20:26:05] cataphract@php.net

This is by design, it's the way \b and \w are defined in PCRE.

You'll have to use another strategy, like look behind and unicode
character properties.

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