From: trollofdarkness at gmail dot com
Operating system: Debian 5 Lenny
PHP version: 5.4.8
Package: ICONV related
Bug Type: Bug
Bug description:iconv returns false when illegal character encountered
Description:
------------
Hi everyone,
I have been, since I think the version 5.3.x is out (and still with 5.4.8),
experiencing issues with iconv.
Especially, when an illegal character is encountered and the //IGNORE flag
is
set on the target charset, the function returns FALSE instead of just
skipping
this character.
This is problematic because if a single character in a 50 000 chars long
string
is "illegal" then the output is nothing, just for one char...
It does not happen with the TRANSLIT flag.
I experienced that with UTF8 (from) and ISO-8859-15 (to) charsets, I did
not
test with other ones. Below is an example to reproduce the bug.
Note : I saw there are other bug reports about similar issues, but they're
all
saying the string is cut... In my case, it literally returns false. So,
might be
different?
Test script:
---------------
<?php
$str = "
foo
è
foo
";
$result = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-15"."//IGNORE", $str);
var_dump($result); // false, instead of "foo ... foo"
?>
Expected result:
----------------
foo
foo
Actual result:
--------------
false
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Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=fixed
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Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=support
Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=php4
Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=dst
IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=float
No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63450&r=mysqlcfg
