note 72099 deleted from function.html-entity-decode by bobby
| From: | bobby@php.net | Date: | Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:05:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 72099 deleted from function.html-entity-decode by bobby | ||
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Note Submitter: peeved_user at example dot com
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I love this documentation: It says UTF-8 is among the character sets supported by PHP 4.3 and
above, right above the table of character sets. Then below, in a footnote, it says multibyte
character sets are not supported for PHP versions < 5.
Turns out the footnote is right. UTF-8 characters make this function puke all over the place with
no way to turn off the error messages -- even though the result of the conversion is correct! --
with PHP 4.x.
This was fixed in PHP 5 after a bug report, but the oh-so-brilliant developers didn't bother to
backport the fix. I guess the claims that PHP 4.3 is UTF-8 compatible are a bunch of lies.