Bug #61396 [Dup->Nab]: illogical behavior of the function htmlspecialchars processing line

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61396&edit=1 ID: 61396 Updated by: johannes@php.net Reported by: iblacksmoke at gmail dot com Summary: illogical behavior of the function htmlspecialchars processing line -Status: Duplicate +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Strings related Operating System: doesn't matter PHP Version: 5.4.0 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Use the 3rd parameter of the function to use the encoding you want. everything else its likely to cause problems in the long run,for instance when mixing thirds party libs in. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-03-15 05:45:55] aharvey@php.net Duplicate of bug #61354. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-03-15 05:40:43] iblacksmoke at gmail dot com I know about the ability to specify the last parameter encoding, but I do not have the ability to change a lot of scripts already written. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-03-15 05:27:12] iblacksmoke at gmail dot com Description: ------------ Function htmlspecialchars does not have compatibility with all scripts in non-unicode charset, because it uses the default utf-8 encoding instead of the settings(php.ini). It's not a bug, but not quite logical behavior. -------------- I'm sorry, I not have opportunity to create patch differences, because I do not have necessary software on my netbook. I hope, this guide will help you: http://pastebin.com/qCXNWxRh Test script: --------------- ini_set('default_charset','windows-1251'); echo htmlspecialchars('<h1>привет мир</h1>'); Expected result: ---------------- &lt;h1&gt;привет мир&lt;/h1&gt; Actual result: -------------- null string ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61396&edit=1