Re: ctype_print, the British Pound and other non-ASCII characters

Bob wrote: > I'm seeing mischief from ctype_print. > > So far as I can tell, the British Pound symbol, '£' is considered a > printable character according to the locale I use on my Ubuntu box. But > even across two years, two boxes, several versions of Ubuntu (from 7.04 > to 9.10, one x86, one AMD64), and two major versions of PHP (PHP 4 and > now PHP 5.2.11), I cannot get ctype_print to return true when a string > given to it contains the British Pound symbol. (Or other non-ASCII > characters such as ø or ß.) > > The locale I'm using is en_GB.UTF-8 and when I call setlocale(LC_ALL, > 'en_GB.UTF-8') in PHP, it returns the name of this locale rather than > FALSE, so that seems to be in order. (However, to be sure I have > installed and reinstalled the language pack in Ubuntu as suggested by > others.) > > I've even read through the en_GB and i18n locale definition files to > confirm that <U00A3> (for the British Pound symbol) does appear within > the print and graph sections, so both ctype_print and ctype_graph should > consider it acceptable. > > What's most maddening is that ctype_print does return true on my shared > hosting server, so I know that it can be achieved. I'm just hoping that > someone here can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what my operating > system is doing wrong. > > For your information, I'm currently running the following: > > Ubuntu 9.10 (AMD64) > Apache 2.2.14 > PHP 5.2.11 running as a CGI (to mirror the config of my shared host) > Locale in use: en_GB.UTF-8 > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > > Can anyone tell me how to get ctype_print to behave? Tested on a few ubuntu boxes (8&9s) and: When using en_US.utf8 all is fine var_dump( ctype_print( 'abcd ef £ ghs als kl ,!' ) ); // TRUE then: # locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8 Generating locales... en_GB.UTF-8... done Generation complete. # locale -a C en_GB.utf8 en_US en_US.utf8 POSIX setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_GB.UTF-8'); var_dump( ctype_print( 'abcd ef £ ghs als kl ,!' ) ); // FALSE wondering if this is a PHP issue or a mapping generation issue on ubuntu.. have you checked the output of #locale to ensure LC_CTYPE is set to the appropriate value? regards!