Bug #78101 [Nab]: Icorrect behaviour for substr on Windows

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78101&edit=1 ID: 78101 User updated by: mishamosher at gmail dot com Reported by: mishamosher at gmail dot com Summary: Icorrect behaviour for substr on Windows Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: *General Issues Operating System: Windows 10 1903 64-bits PHP Version: 7.2.19 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Hello requinix@php.net, I appreciate your attention into the matter. I know for sure that there are no multibyte strings or invisible characters in my testing. Functions strlen, mb_strlen and mb_detect_encoding return 3, 3 and "ASCII" respectively. In the mantime, I've just finished configuring PHP 7.2.11 and PHP 7.3.6, as Apache modules, and they both do not exibit this issue with the very same test file and test environment. The real mistery for me is why specifically PHP 7.2.19 does not want to work as it should. Please note that the issue presents itself only when I run PHP 7.2.19 as an Apache module. The issue does not occur when I run PHP via CMD (php.exe -f script.php). Is there any specific test or debug information that I can provide to further identify the issue? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-06-03 19:23:35] requinix@php.net Either you typed an invisible character (copy/pasted a BOM?) or that slash is a Unicode slash made up of multiple bytes. If you intend to support multibyte strings and non-ASCII encodings then use mbstring and mb_substr() instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-06-03 18:48:45] mishamosher at gmail dot com Description: ------------ I am trying this simple code: <?php echo substr("/es", 0, 1); ?> I expect to see a "/" as a result, but I get "�" instead. PHP is running in an entirely 64-bit environment. - Windows 10 1903 - PHP 7.2.19 (as an apache module) - Apache 2.4.39 Running PHP from the console (php.exe -f script.php) functions properly. Test script: --------------- <?php echo substr("/es", 0, 1); ?> Expected result: ---------------- "/" Actual result: -------------- "�" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78101&edit=1