#18874 [NEW]: Certain Japanese characters break PHP's $_GET and $_POST

From: erica@simpli.biz Operating system: Windows XP PHP version: 4.1.2 PHP Bug Type: Output Control Bug description: Certain Japanese characters break PHP's $_GET and $_POST I've put an example script here: http://clients.simpli.biz/contact.php and the .phps is http://clients.simpli.biz/contact.phps Basically, there is a specific Japanese character that translates to a [ in ASCII. Since this character contains a [, PHP treats this as the beginning of an array, and since it sees no ending delimiter, it ignores that form field. Any form input with that character then becomes broken in PHP. Since it is a fairly common character, this has a large impact. Go to the script above and change your character encoding, and you'll see exactly what I mean. When you hit Submit, the script just prints out all submitted variables. Any form inputs with a name containing that character do not submit at all. Thanks, Erica (SlashChick on irc.openprojects.net #php) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18874&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18874&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18874&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18874&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18874&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18874&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18874&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18874&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18874&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18874&r=globals