Bug #66484 [Fbk->Nab]: doube encoding in html_entities()

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66484&edit=1 ID: 66484 Updated by: requinix@php.net Reported by: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Summary: doube encoding in html_entities() -Status: Feedback +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem PHP Version: 5.5.8 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Looks like I totally won that, actually: I didn't say *all* the entities would be encoded, just those three (on that input). More specifically, there'll be numeric entities in place of characters that aren't present in ISO 8859-1. I'm also betting you entered the data through an HTML form on a page that's encoded (or interpreted as) ISO 8859-1? When you entered characters that weren't supported by the character set the browser entity-encoded them, and using the only encoding scheme it knew would work: numeric entities. [1] So not a bug: PHP diligently encoded the already-partially-encoded input as you requested. Your two best options are a) Use an encoding that supports the characters you want to use b) Pass $double_encode=false to htmlentities() [1] Ratified in HTML 5 as http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#application/x-www-form-urlencoded-encoding-algorithm step 4.3. It's also the behavior for HTML 4 but I don't see where it's declared in the standard. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-01-14 19:10:03] spam2 at rhsoft dot net you lose that bet (at least partly) well, there is only one entity only god knows where it came from because the entered data are for sure not entity encoded in the source otherwise ü would also be ü in the DB +---------------------------------+ | s2titel | +---------------------------------+ | Hasta Güvenliği Platformu | +---------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) htmlentities: Hasta ve Çalışan Güvenliği browser display in the input-filed: Hasta ve Çalışan Güvenliği as you can see there are more entities than expected ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-01-14 18:28:44] requinix@php.net Go into your database and look at the value directly. I bet you it has Hasta ve Çalışan Güvenliği ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-01-14 10:39:32] spam2 at rhsoft dot net Description: ------------ Input: Hasta ve Çalışan Güvenliği Output: Hasta ve Çalışan Güvenliği ı must be ı Test script: --------------- htmlentities($text, ENT_QUOTES, 'ISO8859-1'); $text comes from a MySQL database yes, i know that this must not be handeled with ISO-8859-1 but that is no reason for double entities at all ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66484&edit=1