Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62861&edit=1
ID: 62861
Comment by: ni...@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:
The default_charset sets default charset for the Content-Type header. It
doesn't really have anything to do with the htmlspecialchars() family of
functions.
The '' encoding is some sort of magic charset detection algorithm that may or
may not guess correctly. The docs explicitly state that you should not use it.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-08-19 14:31:20] soapergem at gmail dot com
I am aware that Notepad is not a suitable editor for development. It is just
the
de facto "basic" editor in Windows. If something doesn't work in Notepad,
you're
usually in trouble.
I use an editor called EditPlus, which is a very good editor. The older version
which I have used does not have support for removing the BOM, but I see the
newer version does, so I will have to upgrade.
But I would really appreciate it if you could address my suggestion about using
the default_charset defined in php.ini automatically. Right now having to call
htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, "") seems very
counter-intuitive
to invoke what should be the default.
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[2012-08-19 14:27:31] ras...@php.net
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.
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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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