#25670 [Com]: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()

ID: 25670 Comment by: ross at golder dot org Reported By: nospam at unclassified dot de Status: Wont fix Bug Type: *General Issues Operating System: Windows, Linux PHP Version: 4.3.2 New Comment: Is there a particular reason you won't backport this fix to the 4.3 series? I can't find an explanation/discussion of this refusal. If somebody else backported this fix, would it be accepted? Sounds like quite a fairly important and useful bugfix to me. Just curious. Currently downloading PHP5, will give it a spin. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-27 06:11:52] nospam at unclassified dot de OK, I found another way for my issue anyway... <?php // Returns the utf string corresponding to the unicode value (from php.net, courtesy - romans@void.lv) function code2utf($num) { if ($num < 128) return chr($num); if ($num < 2048) return chr(($num >> 6) + 192) . chr(($num & 63) + 128); if ($num < 65536) return chr(($num >> 12) + 224) . chr((($num >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($num & 63) + 128); if ($num < 2097152) return chr(($num >> 18) + 240) . chr((($num >> 12) & 63) + 128) . chr((($num >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($num & 63) + 128); return ''; } function encode($str) { return preg_replace('/&#(\\d+);/e', 'code2utf($1)', utf8_encode($str)); } ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-27 00:07:57] moriyoshi@php.net The very issue was already addressed and the appropriate fix is ready for php5, though we won't introduce this feature to the current stable version (4.3.x). See: http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/php-src/NEWS?r1=1.1403&r2=1.1404 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-26 09:30:48] nospam at unclassified dot de Slightly correcting: It won't use Latin-1 but just do nothing. I tested with a Unicode character (&#x2248; "almost equal") and it returned the character readable. Can be tested by passing html_entity_decode to htmlspecialchars and then echo'ing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-26 09:24:52] nospam at unclassified dot de Description: ------------ Trying to decode HTML entities into UTF-8 results in the following error message: Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! The line is repeated about 200 times, then html_entity_decode just uses ISO-8859-1 charset. Reproduce code: --------------- echo html_entity_decode("&uuml;", ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"); Expected result: ---------------- some UTF-8 encoding of 'ü' Actual result: -------------- error messages see above, then Latin-1 encoding of 'ü' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25670&edit=1