Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62861&edit=1
ID: 62861
Updated by: ras...@php.net
Reported by: soapergem at gmail dot com
Summary: htmlentities returns empty string when it shouldn't
Status: Not a bug
Type: Bug
Package: *General Issues
Operating System: Windows
PHP Version: 5.4.6
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Every real editor can do that. Windows Notepad is not a real editor. Notepad++
(which is free and much much better than Notepad), Notepad2, Textmate, Vim,
Jedit, Ultraedit, Emacs, SourceEdit can all do this.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-08-19 14:27:07] ni...@php.net
Windows Notepad does not support this because Notepad is not a suitable editor
for development. All development-oriented texteditors and IDEs support saving
files without BOM.
One commonly used text editor for Windows is Notepad++ (in case you don't want
to use a full-blown IDE).
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[2012-08-19 14:11:43] soapergem at gmail dot com
There is no option to save without the BOM in Windows Notepad. Nor is there an
option to save with/without the BOM in many other Windows editors. It is
automatically added to the file and there is nothing I can do about that --
short of writing a script to programmatically go through all my other scripts
with fopen(), remove the first three characters, and then re-save.
That is NOT a practical option. PHP should be handling this.
As it stands, PHP 5.4 is completely unusable. Until you guys fix this, I need
to
stick with 5.3, because 5.4 will break all of my scripts -- and all the scripts
of ANYONE who uses htmlentities() on a Windows server. Please take my
suggestion
about using the default_charset to heart. That would finally resolve this issue.
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[2012-08-19 13:59:09] ni...@php.net
Save your document as UTF-8 *without* BOM. The  is just what the UTF-8
Byte Order Mark (BOM) looks like when it is output (which is probably something
you don't want, so save the file without it).
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[2012-08-19 13:49:39] ras...@php.net
>From my command line:
php > echo htmlentities('©', ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, 'UTF-8');
©
it works fine. If you are actually providing the correct UTF-8 char it will
work
fine. You can verify that by doing this:
php > $a = chr(0xC2).chr(0xA9);
php > echo htmlentities($a, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, 'UTF-8');
©
Here I am explicitly passing C2A9 in and I get © back out.
So I have no idea what your Windows Notepad is doing. Look at the output with a
hex editor and see what it is converting that copyright character to.
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[2012-08-19 13:30:07] soapergem at gmail dot com
Yes, your assumptions about what I was meaning to say were correct. I really
meant "ANSI," which you know as CP-1252.
But there is definitely still a bug with this. I just followed your
instructions
by saving my test script specifically in the "UTF-8" encoding hoping that, as
you said, "all my problems will go away."
They didn't.
My test script is exactly the same one that I have listed on this bug report. I
saved it in Windows Notepad, using the "UTF-8" encoding. I am no longer getting
an empty string -- which is progress. But now I am getting the following output:
©
This is definitely NOT the expected result here. It did finally convert the
copyright symbol, but it prepended not one, not two, but THREE junk characters
in front of it. This is even worse than before.
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the whole reason PHP6 was abandoned because the
idea
of converting everything to Unicode deemed too ambitious? I've already spent
far
too much time dealing with this than is practical, as I'm sure you have much
better things to do, as well. It just seems to me that you guys had a wonderful
hammer -- a wonderful tool for the job -- and you went and broke off the hammer
head for no apparent reason.
If I might make a humble suggestion, why not let htmlentities() default to
whatever the default_charset option is in php.ini? Right now you can only do
that by explicitly passing an empty string as the third parameter to
htmlentities, which is very messy and counterintuitive. Shouldn't the
default_charset actually be, you know, the _default character set_?
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