Re: Bug #6173: urlencode() doesn't respect locale

Hmm... I'm not sure that this is a bug. RFC 1738 says: URLs are written only with the graphic printable characters of the US-ASCII coded character set. I realize that urlencode() is not RFC 1738 directly, but still... On 15 Aug 2000, mbravo@acm.org wrote the following to php-dev@lists.php.net : > From: mbravo@acm.org > Operating system: FreeBSD 4.1 > PHP version: 3.0.16 > PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function > Bug description: urlencode() doesn't respect locale > > By definition, urlencode() should leave alphanumeric characters unencoded. > However, (uin my case) it doesn't respect locale settings, and encodes > non-ASCII (but alphanumeric as per locale definition) characters when it > shouldn't. Locale is correctly set up, and Apache does have correct LANG > and LC_ALL environment variables in its runtime environment (checked by > phpinfo()). I even tried executing explicit setlocale() call within a > script but this doesn't change anything (which is probably correct as > locale is already set systemwide) > > I don't know if this problem is peculiar to FreeBSD installations, > perhaps someone should check this out - might be possible, since > judging by source code, system isalphanum() is used to determine > whether a character should be encoded. However, FreeBSD in general handles > locale very responsibly and this wouldn't be possible if fundamental checks > like isalpha() were broken. >