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Request #42023 html_entity_decode() skips some chars
Submitted: 2007-07-18 06:27 UTC Modified: 2010-10-11 07:06 UTC
Votes:5
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.9
Reproduced:5 of 5 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (40.0%)
Same OS:3 (60.0%)
From: anders dot jenbo at pc dot dk Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.2.3, 4.4.7 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-07-18 06:27 UTC] anders dot jenbo at pc dot dk 
Description:
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html_entity_decode does not handle ” “ „ ∞ ’ • ™ … –

Reproduce code:
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echo(html_entity_decode('  ”“„∞’•™…–'));

Expected result:
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???∞?????

Actual result:
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”“„∞’•™…–

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 [2007-07-21 14:05 UTC] mattias at secweb dot se 
ISO-8859-1 which php5 will use by default dosen't support those characters. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html#h-24.2

echo(html_entity_decode('”“„∞’•™…–', 0, 'UTF-8'));

.. will decode the entities.
 [2010-10-11 07:06 UTC] cataphract@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus -Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues
 [2010-10-11 07:06 UTC] cataphract@php.net 
See bug #52712.
 [2011-01-02 21:25 UTC] joerg dot lottermoser at web dot de 
also affected: € (won't be decoded - PHP 5.3.1).
 
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