#22041 [Fbk->Opn]: mb_substr produces "mojibake" on certain strings ...

ID: 22041 User updated by: jc@mega-bucks.co.jp Reported By: jc@mega-bucks.co.jp -Status: Feedback +Status: Open Bug Type: mbstring related Operating System: Red Hat Linux 7.2 PHP Version: 4.3.0 New Comment: Glad you could see the funny side of this bug report :) I did try very hard to find a better example ... but couldn't get mb_substr to break on anything else. Why set internal encoding to eucJP-win? The data is from a database and is in EUC-JP ... When I entered the data into the DB if the were any illegal EUC-JP characters it should have complained ... And as you can see I can display the whole string as EUC-JP perfectly. It's only *after* I use mb_substr() that the string becomes mojibake ... Thanks! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-04 07:36:19] moriyoshi@php.net LOL! It's indeed so OFFENSIVE I have no idea how to translate those words to English. But perhaps you know what that means? Ehm, first try setting the internal encoding to "eucJP-win". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-04 05:28:48] jc@mega-bucks.co.jp First, sorry for any offensive japanese words. I can't read/write japanese very well, and the error in mb_substr occurs on data from a list of video titles ... I tried to find another less offensive example but couldn't. I'm just posting this bug report in order to help ... I am trying to use mb_substr on data I get from a postgreSQL DB and in some cases mb_substr seems to cut the string in the middle of a multibyte char .. which turns the "cut" char into mojibake ... The DB is in EUC-JP and my internal encoding is set to EUC-JP in my php.ini file ... As you can see the last character of the string has been improperly cut ... Here is my test program and output: CODE: <?php require_once("db_functions/sql_query.inc"); $sql = "select maker_comment from products where id=12802"; $res = sql_query($sql); $dat = pg_fetch_object($res); $c = $dat->substr; echo "String: <BR>"; echo $c ."<BR>"; $c = mb_substr($c, 0, 80); echo "<BR> After cutting it ... <BR>"; echo $c ."<BR>"; ?> OUPUT: COMMENT2: ¥¢¥ó¥°¥ë¤Î¡ÖĶ-¸Ô´Ö¤Î¥¢¥ó¥°¥ë¡×¥·¥ê¡¼¥º£Ä£Ø¡¢Â³¡¹Åо졪¤¿¤À¤ÎºÆÊÔ¤â¤Î¤Ç¤Ï¤¢¤ê¤Þ¤»¤ó¡ªÍ¾Ê¬¤Ê²è¤¬¤Ê¤¤ AFTER cutting it ... ¥¢¥ó¥°¥ë¤Î¡ÖĶ-¸Ô´Ö¤Î¥¢¥ó¥°¥ë¡×¥·¥ê¡¼¥º£Ä£Ø¡¢Â³¡¹Åо졪¤¿¤À¤ÎºÆÊÔ¤â¤Î¤Ç¤Ï¤¢¤ê¤Þ&#65533; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22041&edit=1