Bug #15027: Unicode chars (query string decoding)

From: nataniel@implix.com Operating system: All PHP version: 4.1.1 PHP Bug Type: *Languages/Translation Bug description: Unicode chars (query string decoding) urldecode() function is not supporting UNICODE characters coding, like %u0627 for the Arabic letter ALEF (ا in HTML). So when you are passing the Unicode chars through GET/POST or urldecode(), you will get only encoded string: http://server.com/test.php?test=%u062D%u0645%u0627%u062F%u0629 in test.php: print('test = '.$test); you will get: test = %u062D%u0645%u0627%u062F%u0629 What you have to do is to "manually" convert it to html entitles: ------------------------------------------------------------ function unicode_decode($txt) { return ereg_replace('%u0([[:alnum:]]{3})', '&#x\1;',$txt); } ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=15027&edit=1