I've just run into a strange "bug". I have a form on my web site that takes input from the user and then uses that to do a search of a postgresql database. The form is set to be EUC-JP, but this weekend a user submitted a query that postgres reject because it "contains invalid EUC-JP" characters. Luckily the error was logged and I was able to track it down. I thought that maybe the user had entered some bad characters in the form or used some strange encoding so I should better check to make sure that the encoding of the submitted form data really is EUC-JP using mb_detect_encoding(). But unfortunately mb_detect_encoding() says that the invalid string *is* in EUC-JP!? The query string is as it appears in the URL is: search_words=%B7%F6%BA%7E In the script that parses this query I have put the following: $words = $_GET["search_words"]; $enc = mb_detect_encoding($aI["search_words"]); echo "encoding is $enc and the query is ($words)";die; The result is: encoding is EUC-JP and the query is (喧?) As you can see the query string is *not* a valid EUC-JP sequence ... Is there any way for me to check the user input to make sure it is a valid EUC-JP sequence before passing it off to my database? I though that mb_detect_encoding() would be the function to use but it fails in this case. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jen-Christian Imbeault -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
