note 109796 added to function.iconv

To comment on php's iconv() //IGNORE option not working, that's not quite true. The //IGNORE option is not designed to handle invalid byte sequences in the input string. Rather, while operating on a string that is valid in the "from" charset, the //IGNORE option will simply discard characters that cannot be represented by an approximate sequence in the "to" charset. The //IGNORE option does not let you get away with passing garbage in the input - the string you pass must be valid when looked at through the "to" charset. iconv itself does have a separate "-c" option on the command-line which enables an option to skip/remove invalid byte sequences in the input string. This is entirely separate from the purpose of the //IGNORE option. So php does not have a bug, it simply does not provide a method for using the "-c" option of iconv, which is unfortunate. A work-around, as mentioned by another commenter, is to make the system call to the iconv program with the "-c" option. ---- Server IP: 216.235.13.26 Probable Submitter: 66.152.79.250 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/109796 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109796/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109796/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109796/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109796/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109796/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109796/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109796 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/109796 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php