#20934 [Ver->Csd]: htmlspecialchars returns latin1 from UTF-8

ID: 20934 Updated by: moriyoshi@php.net Reported By: renato@cria.org.br -Status: Verified +Status: Closed Bug Type: Strings related Operating System: Red hat linux 8.0 PHP Version: 4CVS-2002-12-11 (dev) New Comment: This bug has been fixed in CVS. In case this was a PHP problem, snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at http://www.php.net/manual/. In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites in short time. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. It's fortunate that I managed to fix this before the release. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-12 07:19:13] wez@php.net Is this problem also in the PHP 4.3.0RC3? If so, this should be resolved before release. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-12 07:10:58] moriyoshi@php.net Thanks for your effort again. Verified this behaviour. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-11 06:58:14] renato@cria.org.br I used the script bellow for testing (calling it from MS Internet Explorer to directly see the xml output). Calling it without parameters one should see a simple xml document showing a string in latin1. Calling it with "?charset=utf8", the script correctly converts the string from latin1 to UTF-8 but after using "htmlspecialchars" it goes back to latin1, and the xml becomes invalid. (put a comment on the "htmlspecialchars" line after the character conversion and the xml will show up in UTF-8 without problem). <?php $string = "Hello from São Paulo"; $charset = isset($_GET["charset"]) ? $_GET["charset"] : "latin1"; if ($charset == "utf8") { $charset_code = "UTF-8"; $show_string = mb_convert_encoding($string, "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1"); $show_string = htmlspecialchars($show_string, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8"); } else { $charset_code = "ISO-8859-1"; $show_string = htmlspecialchars($string); } header ("Content-type: text/xml"); echo "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='$charset_code' ?>\n"; ?> <test> <?php print($show_string); ?> </test> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20934&edit=1