note 109796 deleted from function.iconv by danbrown

Note Submitter: nate ---- 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.