Doc #68573 [NEW]: No mention that fetch_fields()'s output depends on client charset

From: sebastianzartner at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: 5.6.3 Package: MySQLi related Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:No mention that fetch_fields()'s output depends on client charset Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/mysqli-result.fetch-fields --- The return values for mysqli_result::fetch_fields are vaguely defined. There is no mention that 'length' and 'charsetnr' depend on the default client character set, which can be changed via mysqli::set_charset. This leads to great confusions[1] as people expect 'length' to reflect the length they set for the column. E.g. a column defined as varchar(10) will result in 'length' being 30 and 'charsetnr' being 33 if the client charset is set to 'utf8'. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/q/10430406/432681 -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68573&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68573&r=mysqlcfg