Bug #64010 [Com]: htmlentities fundamentally broken in 5.4

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64010&edit=1 ID: 64010 Comment by: andrebruce at gmail dot com Reported by: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Summary: htmlentities fundamentally broken in 5.4 Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.4.10 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Hello, I found this bug report searching for htmlentities broken I am seeing some broken applications like phppgadmin shipped with Ubuntu because of this change. Making it possible to change it globally on php.ini (or using the default_charset from php.ini) would be really interesting. Thanks. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-09-02 18:05:25] spam2 at rhsoft dot net and again a broken backend on a production server running E_ALL reporting because the braindead idiot who made this change was not smart enugh to throw a *warning* if it returs an empty string while the input was not empty how stupid can developers act? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-17 18:41:04] spam2 at rhsoft dot net and last but not least WTF did whoever implemented the bullshit returning an emptry string WITHOUT THROW A WARNING AT LEAST - who do you guys imagine that admins/developers which are running in E_ALL | E_STRICT since years smell if there something is still broken and need to get fixed? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-17 13:35:36] spam2 at rhsoft dot net and if you guys would be smart there would be an php.ini setting to specify the bahvior globally and/or per <Directory> instead hardcode incompatible changes breaking nearly ANY code written without wrappers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-17 13:33:21] spam2 at rhsoft dot net as long as PHP at whole is NOT really capable UTF8 it is bullshit to assume that any input is UTF8 as default ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-17 13:23:21] rasmus@php.net If your page is ISO-8859-1 and you are using that as your internal encoding as well, then you need to specify that. Otherwise it leads to security issues. And since most people don't use ISO-8859-1 anymore, the safer default is to make sure we don't output invalid UTF-8 byte sequences when the developer has not specified the encoding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64010 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64010&edit=1