Req #66264 [Opn]: htmlspecialchars_decode() does not take an encoding argument.

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66264&edit=1 ID: 66264 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: lyle dot mantooth at primasupply dot com Summary: htmlspecialchars_decode() does not take an encoding argument. Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Strings related Operating System: Linux Mint PHP Version: 5.4.22 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Since all supported character encodings[1] are ASCII compatible (i.e. they are supersets of ASCII), and all "htmlspecialchars" are ASCII characters, the actual encoding doesn't really matter for htmlspecialchars_decode(). So adding an $encoding parameter would be useless, maybe except for checking whether the given string is valid for the given encoding. [1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-7.2.5/ext/standard/html_tables.h#L44-L78> Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-12-11 18:10:32] aharvey@php.net Transmogrifying into a feature request: htmlspecialchars_decode() doesn't currently support a character set parameter (although the internal php_unescape_html_entities() function it calls does). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-12-11 14:41:21] lyle dot mantooth at primasupply dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.htmlspecialchars-decode --- Of all the functions that handle converting HTML entities to and from their character equivalents, htmlspecialchars_decode() is the only one that doesn't seem to care about the string encoding. * htmlspecialchars(), $encoding parameter added in PHP 4.1.0. * htmlentities(), $encoding parameter added in PHP 4.1.0. * html_entity_decode(), function added in PHP 4.3.0, presumably with $encoding parameter from the beginning. * hmtlspecialchars_decode(), function added in PHP 5.1.0, but no $encoding parameter. This may be only a documentation problem, but if it isn't, then it's a real problem working with this API without even knowing what the default encoding is. Did it change in PHP 5.4.0 for this function, like it did for the others? I still don't know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66264&edit=1