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Bug #70591 ord() no longer yields correct results consistently
Submitted: 2015-09-27 00:10 UTC Modified: 2015-09-28 01:02 UTC
From: slevy1 at pipeline dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 7.0.0RC3 OS: n/a
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-09-27 00:10 UTC] slevy1 at pipeline dot com 
Description:
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I used ord() in combination with mb_strcut() to obtain the byte values of a multibyte char utf-8 encoded.  This used to work in PHP 5.4.8 - 5.5.29.  But in PHP5.6-PHP7.00rc3 it doesn't work any more :(

Test script:
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<?php 


$str = "♥"; // 3 byte values per above

var_dump( ord(mb_strcut($str, 0, 1) )); 
var_dump( ord(mb_strcut($str, 1, 1) )); 
var_dump( ord(mb_strcut($str, 2, 1) ));

see live code: https://3v4l.org/OoFus

Expected result:
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I expected the var dumps to produce decimal results as follows:

 226 
 153
 165

Actual result:
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0
0
0

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 [2015-09-27 00:36 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2015-09-27 00:36 UTC] requinix@php.net 
The default character encoding, which your calls to mb_strcut() will be using, changed to be UTF-8 in PHP 5.6.

https://3v4l.org/YE6I9
 [2015-09-27 00:37 UTC] requinix@php.net 
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/default_encoding, by the way
 [2015-09-27 19:09 UTC] slevy1 at pipeline dot com 
According to http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=9728, when the black heart symbol (U+2665) is utf-8 encoded, the result is a multibyte string consisting of 3 bytes whose hex values are e2 99 a5 which in decimal are  226  153
 165.  So, maybe the manual ought to document for mb_strcut() that one needs to specify the parameter "iso-8859-1", if one wishes to provide that string to another function like ord() since mb_strcut() originally was designed for that encoding. Or, should mb_strcut() be reworked?
 [2015-09-28 01:02 UTC] nikic@php.net 
Please reread the documentation for mb_strcut() at http://php.net/mb_strcut, as I feel you are expecting it to do something very different from what it actually does (i.e. cutting at *character* boundaries based on *byte* offsets -- not cutting at *byte* boundaries).

The function you are probably looking for is substr() or even simpler the $str[$i] operation.
 
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