#29119 [NEW]: html_entity_decode misbehaves with UTF-8

From: peter at desk dot nl Operating system: Linux 2.6.5 PHP version: 5.0.0RC3 PHP Bug Type: Strings related Bug description: html_entity_decode misbehaves with UTF-8 Description: ------------ when decoding named entities with html_entity_decode, the resulting characters are sometimes incorrect. e.g., "&euro;" becomes the UTF-8 representation of the &frasl; entity (fraction slash). not all entities are incorrectly translated, though. numerical entities work correctly. tested with both php-5.0.0RC3 and the proposed -RC4 from snaps.php.net/~andi/ config : ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-gd --enable-safe-mode --with-dom=/usr --enable-ftp --with-zlib --with-xsl --with-xmlrpc --enable-cli --enable-bcmath --with-iconv --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 Reproduce code: --------------- // all tests are viewed with browser encoding forced on UTF-8. <?php print html_entity_decode("&euro;",ENT_NOQUOTES,"UTF-8"); print "<br />"; print htmlentities(html_entity_decode("&euro;",ENT_NOQUOTES,"UTF-8"),ENT_NOQUOTES,"UTF-8"); ?> // other test also available on // http://fire.desk.nl/decode/index.php // (just enter &euro; and submit) // and http://fire.desk.nl/decode/index.phps (source) Expected result: ---------------- a euro-sign a euro-sign Actual result: -------------- a fractional slash a euro-sign -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=29119&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29119&r=float