#48871 [Bgs]: strtoupper does not make all characters upper with proper locale set

ID: 48871 User updated by: sweiss at stylesight dot com Reported By: sweiss at stylesight dot com Status: Bogus -Bug Type: I18N and L10N related +Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Debian Etch and RHEL 5 PHP Version: 5.3.0 New Comment: If I give someone software and I tell them, it works fine, just not on any platform you'll ever use, even though you say the software's compatible with my platform, I call that a bug. If I can write a function to accomplish the same thing in your language within a day, it's a bug. And I did read the manual, in fact, that's where I got the incorrect information from. If you weren't going to tell people it doesn't work on most platforms on the page the function's on, exactly where would you deign to put this information that my lowly eyes have missed it? I'm fine waiting for PHP 6. I just want you to accurately reflect the functionality in the documentation so that people don't get hoodwinked like I did. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-07-09 15:42:08] derick@php.net 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 It\'s still not a bug. POSIX locales don\'t handle upper casing of UTF-8 encoded strings unfortunately. You\'ll just have to wait for PHP 6 here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-07-09 15:30:43] sweiss at stylesight dot com Description: ------------ As reported and closed out in 22003 21771 35583 42063 strtoupper() does not actually convert accented characters to uppercase, even if you do set the locale. As PHP 5.3 was only released days ago it seems unlikely 6 will be out anytime soon. If this feature isn't actually going to be there for a long time, then it would be much more considerate to stop stating you have this feature already in your documentation. We used strtoupper everywhere on a 300-file localization project and had no reason to believe it wouldn't work through 3 different (CJK) languages until we got to Spanish and realized it was bogus. Reproduce code: --------------- var_dump(setlocale(LC_ALL, "es_MX.utf8")); $str = "á\n"; echo(strtoupper($str)); Expected result: ---------------- string(10) "es_MX.utf8" Á Actual result: -------------- string(10) "es_MX.utf8" á ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=48871&edit=1