#32498 [Opn->Bgs]: starting with 5.x the XML extension returns data in different encoding

ID: 32498 Updated by: chregu@php.net Reported By: thies at thieso dot net -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: XML related Operating System: linux PHP Version: 5CVS-2005-03-30 (dev) New Comment: This was discussed in http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29711 It was accepted as a BC-break-we-can-live-with, exactly because of "if you pass the 'ISO-8859-1' to xml_parser_create the php5.x behavior is like php4.x.", so you can at least "fix" the script easily to run on both versions. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-03-30 11:05:39] thies at thieso dot net Description: ------------ see code: php 4.x will return the data in 'ISO8859-1' php 5.x will return data in 'UTF8' this will break every single script that uses non-UTF8 encoded xml-files with the "old" xml extension (OK only if you use more than "US-ASCII" characters in the xml). this BC break happened when we switched from expat to libxml. sidenote: as php does not support UTF8 natively i think it makes little sense to make this the default return-encoding for any internal-function. btw: if you pass the 'ISO-8859-1' to xml_parser_create the php5.x behavior is like php4.x. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?><a>����</a>'; xml_parse_into_struct(xml_parser_create(), $xml, $v, $i); echo $v[0]['value']; ?> Expected result: ---------------- (can't paste cause of encoding) Actual result: -------------- (can't paste cause of encoding) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32498&edit=1