Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43896&edit=1
ID: 43896
Comment by: hardin at boulder dot nist dot gov
Reported by: arnaud dot lb at gmail dot com
Summary: htmlspecialchars() returns empty string on invalid
unicode sequence
Status: Closed
Type: Bug
Package: Strings related
Operating System: *
PHP Version: 5CVS-2008-07-15
Assigned To: cataphract
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
echo "test = " . htmlentities("some text", ENT_QUOTES | ENT_IGNORE, 'UTF-8',
false);
returns: test =
echo "test = " . htmlentities("some text", ENT_QUOTES | ENT_IGNORE, 'UTF-8');
returns: test = some text
The latter is the expected result, but why does adding the fourth parameter, to
prevent double-encoding, cause this function (and also htmlspecialchars) to
return the empty string? How can this be prevented?
I have a form that I want to redisplay to users until all their input has been
corrected, preserving their responses in the fields so they can start from what
worked. The users are international, with names containing lots of accent
marks and utf-8 characters, and some of the input is mathematical, with Greek
characters and such, so I want to assume the input is utf-8 to preserve all of
this, without messing it up on multiple passes. Thanks for your help.
Previous Comments:
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[2011-02-06 21:02:51] shaun dot bruno at gmail dot com
Ah... I realized I need 5.3
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[2011-02-06 20:58:07] shaun dot bruno at gmail dot com
I'm still having this problem - running php 5.2.15
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[2010-10-11 03:16:23] [email protected]
Noted addition of ENT_IGNORE in the manual entries for htmlspecialchars and
htmlentities.
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[2010-10-11 03:15:46] [email protected]
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of cataphract
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=304297
Log: - Documented addition of ENT_IGNORE as per bug #43896
(changed its status from TBD to Closed).
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[2008-11-26 04:33:22] [email protected]
It seems "Fixed in CVS and need to be documented" does not changes the status
if it is set to "Assigned" :/
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