I doubt this has anything to do with PHP. The ctype functions are just
direct wrappers for your native ctype calls. Try this:
create a file called a.c:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
void main(int argc, char **argv) {
printf("%d\n",isprint(*argv[1]));
}
Compile it with: make a
Then try:
10:21am new:~> ./a £
0
10:21am new:~> ./a $
16384
Same result. My LOCALE doesn't think £ is printable, but $ is. Switch
to dollars or fix your LOCALE.
-Rasmus
Bob wrote:
> [I did post this to php.general, but I think php.i18n may be more
> suitable.]
>
> In summary: ctype_print returns false for a string containing the British
> Pound symbol, and I'm sure that's not how it should behave.
>
> So far as I can tell, the British Pound symbol, '£' is considered a
> printable character according to the locale I use on my Ubuntu box. But
> even across two years, two boxes, several versions of Ubuntu (from 7.04
> to 9.10, one x86, one AMD64), and two major versions of PHP (PHP 4 and
> now PHP 5.2.11), I cannot get ctype_print to return true when a string
> given to it contains the British Pound symbol. (Or other non-ASCII
> characters such as ø or ß.)
>
> The locale I'm using is en_GB.UTF-8 and when I call setlocale(LC_ALL,
> 'en_GB.UTF-8') in PHP, it returns the name of this locale rather than
> FALSE, so that seems to be in order. (However, to be sure I have
> installed and reinstalled the language pack in Ubuntu as suggested by
> others.)
>
> I've even read through the en_GB and i18n locale definition files to
> confirm that <U00A3> (for the British Pound symbol) does appear within
> the print and graph sections, so both ctype_print and ctype_graph should
> consider it acceptable.
>
> What's most maddening is that ctype_print does return true on my shared
> hosting server, so I know that it can be achieved. I'm just hoping that
> someone here can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what my operating
> system is doing wrong.
>
> For your information, I'm currently running the following:
>
> Ubuntu 9.10 (AMD64)
> Apache 2.2.14
> PHP 5.2.11 running as a CGI (to mirror the config of my shared host)
> Locale in use: en_GB.UTF-8
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get ctype_print to behave?
>
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