Req #7923 [Ana->Csd]: htmlentities doesn't work for ISO 8859-2

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=7923&edit=1 ID: 7923 Updated by: tyrael@php.net Reported by: muhlig at us dot edu dot pl Summary: htmlentities doesn't work for ISO 8859-2 -Status: Analyzed +Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Strings related Operating System: N/A PHP Version: 4.0.3pl1 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: tyrael Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed in the latest released version of PHP, which you can download at http://www.php.net/downloads.php htmlentities supports this via the third optional charset argument since 4.1.0 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-11-04 17:13:01] rf at astro dot uni dot torun dot pl Sorry, I am not PHP programmer... I just found that Polish characters in form entries (in not my software) are converted to html entities (and displayed incorrectly); I tracked thing to happen in htmlentities() function. I am using Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.48 OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.3.5-dev, it has been a few years since 2000; maybe the programmer should use another thing for checking the input... ;) regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-27 17:29:20] jimw@php.net for most if the iso 8859-2 charset, there are no standard html entities, and the current behavior of htmlentities() is to leave such characters unconverted. the real problem is that the current behavior of htmlentities() when passed an unknown charset is to use the iso 8859-1 mapping. it shouldn't try to use a charset mapping in that case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2000-11-23 07:40:20] stas@php.net BTW: you can use recode("ISO8859-2..h4",$text) for this purpose. See GNU recode extension and recode docs for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2000-11-22 08:17:01] muhlig at us dot edu dot pl From PHP Manual: ... htmlentities... At present, the ISO-8859-1 character set is used. I feel there is strong need to make htmlentities to support other charsets than ISO 8859-1. We, here in Poland for instance, use ISO 8859-2. Many Western/USA freeware programs use (as they of course should) htmlentities. Proper display of our diacritic chars is then impossible. We have to modify sources, removing htmlentities or defining own functions. It's a waste of time and resources. May I ask PHP developers to consider this issue? Maciek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=7923&edit=1