note 76396 deleted from function.mb-check-encoding by jani
| From: | jani@php.net | Date: | Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:07:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 76396 deleted from function.mb-check-encoding by jani | ||
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Note Submitter: Olexa Riznyk
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This function returns true incorrectly sometimes (at least when internal encoding is UTF-8 and
encoding being checked for is Windows-1251, and PHP version 4.4.4 on FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE). This bug
was not answered in bug reporting yet, so here is a workaround:
Instead of checking for this:
<?php
mb_check_encoding($var, $destination_encoding)
?>
check for this:
<?php
mb_check_encoding($var, $destination_encoding) && mb_substr_count($var, '?',
$source_encoding) == mb_substr_count(mb_convert_encoding($var, $destination_encoding,
$source_encoding), '?', $destination_encoding)
?>
The idea is to count question mark characters ('?') in original value and converted value,
because mb_convert_encoding function uses question marks to substitute characters that are not valid
in destination encoding.