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Bug #49590 htmlentities doesn't convert euro symbols
Submitted: 2009-09-18 14:19 UTC Modified: 2009-09-18 17:50 UTC
From: fernando at consultorpc dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 5.3.0 OS: Linux/Mac OSX Leopard
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-09-18 14:19 UTC] fernando at consultorpc dot com 
Description:
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Htmlentities() doens't convert euro symbol correctly even when i set charset to ISO-8859-15.

Reproduce code:
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<?php

$html = htmlentities( 'Euro ?' , ENT_COMPAT , 'ISO-8859-15' );
var_dump( $html );

Expected result:
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"Euro &euro;"

Actual result:
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"Euro &acirc;?&not;"

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 [2009-09-18 17:50 UTC] jani@php.net 
That's incorrect as well since you're on UTF-8, this works:

# php -r 'var_dump(htmlentities("?", ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8"));'
 
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