Bug #55507 [Com]: fgetcsv() handles invalid characters inconsistently

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55507&edit=1 ID: 55507 Comment by: r dot fiedler at ovm dot de Reported by: gtisza at gmail dot com Summary: fgetcsv() handles invalid characters inconsistently Status: Open Type: Bug Package: Filesystem function related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: In the window-versions it works correct, I got the error under php 5.2.6-1+lenny13 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-08-25 12:46:51] gtisza at gmail dot com Description: ------------ fgetcsv() throws away the first character of a field if it is invalid in the current locale, but ignores invalid characters which are not at the beginning of a field. The inconsistent behavior makes it hard to locate the source of the bug; it should either throw all invalid characters away, or none of them (IMO the second is much better). (This is a duplicate of bug 45356, but that one has been closed as "no feedback", and apparently mere mortals are not allowed to reopen it, even if they do provide the feedback...) Test script: --------------- <?php setlocale(LC_ALL,'C'); $utfchar = chr(0xC3).chr(0x89); // U+009C in UTF-8 $csv = $utfchar."x".$utfchar."x\n"; file_put_contents('test.csv', $csv); $file = fopen('test.csv', 'r'); $data = fgetcsv($file); for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($data[0]); $i++) { echo dechex(ord($data[0][$i])).' '; } echo "\n"; unlink('test.csv'); // expected: c3 89 78 c3 89 78 - "ÉxÉx" // actual: 78 c3 89 78 - "xÉx" ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55507&edit=1