#36138 [Opn->Bgs]: utf8_decode fails ; UTF-8 headers work

ID: 36138 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: ceo at l-i-e dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: *Languages/Translation Operating System: FreeBSD 5.3 PHP Version: 4.4.2 New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php utf8_decode converts utf8 characters to latin1. Many of the characters in that document do not exist in latin1 (iso-8859-1) and thus PHP returns question marks for this. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-01-23 21:09:27] ceo at l-i-e dot com Description: ------------ I'm not an expert in multi-lingual character encoding sets stuff, but... This version uses PHP's utf8_decode, and I get funky useless characters: http://acousticdemo.com/info.com/answers/answers.php?qkw=Catherine+de+Medici&utf8_decode=1 This version sends a charset UTF-8 header (Mozilla based) and a META charset UTF-8 (MS IE) and it "works": http://acousticdemo.com/info.com/answers/answers.php?qkw=Catherine+de+Medici This was actually in 4.4.0 and also in 5.0.4, so it MIGHT be fixed in CVS -- but I have no control over the versions of PHP on the servers involved, and am unlikely to have such control in the future... Best I can do, sorry. Reproduce code: --------------- http://acousticdemo.com/info.com/answers/answers.phps You will not, however, be able to run the code on your own box, because your IP isn't allowed to get that content... I can maybe hook you up with Answers.com, or I can do whatever it takes to get you the raw data for this one page, or... Expected result: ---------------- I expected PHP's UTF8 decoding function to work as well as the browser's. Actual result: -------------- I get a lot of funky characters that just aren't right. I can't guarantee that it's not the data that is bad, but the browser is handling it, so... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36138&edit=1