Bug #55174 [Bgs]: htmlspecialchars buggy

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55174&edit=1 ID: 55174 User updated by: development at dayside dot net Reported by: development at dayside dot net Summary: htmlspecialchars buggy Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: *General Issues Operating System: winxp sp3 PHP Version: 5.4.0alpha1 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: correct me if i'm wrong, but this function returns nothin' in case of 'Test123' and thats okay ? ...and not everyone is allowed to change that php.ini setting in some cases as a user you dont know which encoding is used... in such a case htmlspecialchars discards all data... thats a fantastic idea.. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-11 12:34:59] rasmus@php.net You can also set your default_charset back to iso-8859-1 in your php.ini file, but really these days you should be using utf-8. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-11 10:16:10] cataphract@php.net The default encoding as of PHP 5.4 is UTF-8 (it was ISO-8859-1 before). Therefore, if your string is in ISO-8859-1, you must specify the encoding. Closing as bogus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-11 07:05:33] development at dayside dot net Description: ------------ when any string contains any char of these -> äöüß and the string is processed with htmlspecialchars it results in an empty string... Test script: --------------- <?php echo htmlspecialchars('Test123 äöüß'); ?> Actual result: -------------- nothin... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55174&edit=1