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Bug #37154 All strings input must be utf8-encoded
Submitted: 2006-04-21 14:37 UTC Modified: 2006-04-21 15:07 UTC
From: troelskn at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 5.1.2 OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-04-21 14:37 UTC] troelskn at gmail dot com 
Description:
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After some digging around and experimentation, I have found out that the DOM extension needs all input strings to be utf8-encoded. This means that any code using the extension must be spingled with urf8_encode.

The problem can probably not be fixed without breaking backward compatibility, so the most sane choice may be to leave it, but atleast update the documentation to state this.

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 [2006-04-21 15:02 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Wrong.
The *default* input encoding is UTF8. But you can always use <?xml version="1.0" encoding="<your encoding>"?>.
All the result data are in UTF8 anyway, this is libxml2 feature.
 [2006-04-21 15:07 UTC] troelskn at gmail dot com 
Not true.

$mb_detect_charsets = "ASCII,UTF-8,ISO-8859-1";




$dom = new DOMDocument("1.0", "UTF-8");
$doc = $dom->appendChild($dom->createElement("document"));
$doc->appendChild($dom->createTextNode(utf8_encode("I?t?rn?ti?n?liz?ti?n")));

echo mb_detect_encoding($dom->saveXML(), $mb_detect_charsets) . "<br>";




$dom = new DOMDocument("1.0", "ISO-8859-1");
$doc = $dom->appendChild($dom->createElement("document"));
$doc->appendChild($dom->createTextNode(utf8_encode("I?t?rn?ti?n?liz?ti?n")));

echo mb_detect_encoding($dom->saveXML(), $mb_detect_charsets) . "<br>";

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outputs :
UTF-8
ISO-8859-1
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Removing ut8_encode crashes the second example.
 
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