Bug #67988 [NEW]: htmlspecialchars() does not respect default_charset specified by ini_set

From: xela at xela dot org dot ua Operating system: CentOS Linux 6.5 PHP version: 5.6.0 Package: Strings related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:htmlspecialchars() does not respect default_charset specified by ini_set Description: ------------ htmlspecialchars() does not respect default_charset specified by ini_set or php_value passed to php-fpm, however it does while it is set by php.ini. Test script: --------------- <?php ini_set('default_charset', 'cp1252'); var_dump(htmlentities("\xA3", ENT_HTML5)); var_dump(htmlentities("\xA3", ENT_HTML5, 'cp1252')); var_dump(html_entity_decode("&pound;", ENT_HTML5)); var_dump(html_entity_decode("&pound;", ENT_HTML5, 'cp1252')); Expected result: ---------------- Script should print: string(7) "&pound;" string(7) "&pound;" string(1) "▒" string(1) "▒" Actual result: -------------- Script printed: string(0) "" string(7) "&pound;" string(2) "£" string(1) "▒" -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67988&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67988&r=mysqlcfg