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Doc Bug #35947 php.net insists on being UTF-8 when it isn't!
Submitted: 2006-01-09 16:30 UTC Modified: 2007-04-04 13:04 UTC
From: php at mytrashmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
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Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-01-09 16:30 UTC] php at mytrashmail dot com 
Description:
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It is really annoying to enter php.net as it tells my browser to use UTF-8 encoding, but when it auto-redirects me to a version in my languge, that language uses a local encoding so I have to switch to it manually - each time I enter a page in php.net!

Expected result:
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Don't just fake UTF-8, but actually encode your content to it.

Actual result:
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A lot of Gibberish.

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 [2006-01-09 16:32 UTC] php at mytrashmail dot com 
I assume there aren't a lot of complaints about it as obviously it doesn't effect English users. Even in fake UTF-8 mode, they still see English letters.
 [2006-01-09 16:39 UTC] goba@php.net 
What language are you trying to view? We are supposed to actually use UTF-8 for all languages.
 [2006-01-09 17:28 UTC] php at mytrashmail dot com 
Hebrew - and I'm not trying to view it on purpose. It's your site that forces me to see everything that has a Hebrew version in Hebrew (by redirecting me il.php.net).

Hmm, strangely currently the pages in il.php.net are all in English. Did you do something?
 [2006-01-09 18:23 UTC] derick@php.net 
The hebrew translation doesn't build for years now, so we can't update it to use UTF8. When the hebrew team fixes this the problem will be gone.
 [2006-01-09 18:47 UTC] php at mytrashmail dot com 
If you keep your contents in MySQL, all you have to do is export the files, encode them to UTF-8 and re-import them.

And how come I don't see Hebrew anymore after being re-directed?
 [2006-01-09 19:13 UTC] goba@php.net 
The php site remembers the last language you have used. Otherwsie it would be a pain to get to manual pages without the handy shortcuts. Once you switch to English, you are going to get English pages. See php.net/my for details and settings.
 [2006-01-10 13:19 UTC] php at mytrashmail dot com 
You're right. I've had to enable cookies for php.net in order to report a bug and somehow English was the default value in the cookie.

I guess it's better surfing php.net with the cookie. Beinh set to English, I'm still being redirected, but I don't have to manually change the encoding each time.

Anyway, what about the MySQL suggestion?
 [2006-01-13 11:56 UTC] vrana@php.net 
Hebrew team knows about this issue. If you want to help them, contact doc-he@lists.php.net.
 [2007-04-04 13:04 UTC] php at mytrashmail dot com 
Just fixed a misspelling in the title of this bug. Why do I have to add a comment when I edit the submission?
 
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