Bug #66278 [NEW]: Transliteration with iconv() on Windows

From: kacper at kacper dot se Operating system: Windows PHP version: 5.4.22 Package: ICONV related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Transliteration with iconv() on Windows Description: ------------ When iconv is used for transliteration on Linux, characters such as ä become ae. On Windows, iconv returns "a instead of ae (note the double quote before the letter). Test script: --------------- $utf8_umlaut_a = 'ä'; // On Linux ä = ae setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'de_DE'); echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $utf8_umlaut_a); // On Windows ä = "a setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'german'); echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $utf8_umlaut_a); Expected result: ---------------- On Windows iconv should return the same result as on Linux. ä should be returned as ae and not "a. Actual result: -------------- ä becomes "a. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66278&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66278&r=mysqlcfg