[PHP-BUG] Bug #60494 [NEW]: iconv_mime_decode does ignore special characters

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Operating system: Windows 7
PHP version:      Irrelevant
Package:          ICONV related
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:iconv_mime_decode does ignore special characters

Description:
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If the string $text passed to iconv_mime_decode($text) does contain special
characters (tested with ä, ü and ß), it will just return an empty
character for these characters.

In my opinion it iconv_mime_decode should leave special characters as they
are as long as they're not encoded via Q-encoding.

Tested on Windows 7 and Debian.

iconv.output_encoding is set to "UTF-8"

Test script:
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<?php

var_dump(iconv_mime_decode('ä'));
var_dump(iconv_mime_decode('ö'));
var_dump(iconv_mime_decode('ß'));

?>

Expected result:
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string(1) "ä"
string(1) "ö"
string(1) "ß"

Actual result:
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string(0) ""
string(0) ""
string(0) ""

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