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Bug #71183 mb_detect_encoding wrong with Windows-1252
Submitted: 2015-12-21 18:28 UTC Modified: 2015-12-21 19:14 UTC
From: martin at sutunam dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: mbstring related
PHP Version: 5.5.30 OS: Ubuntu
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-12-21 18:28 UTC] martin at sutunam dot com 
Description:
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mb_detect_encoding doesn't detect string with Windows-1252 ( cp1252 ) encoding. 

The function is supposed to return the first compatible encoding within the provided encoding list as second param.

Even with an ASCII string like 'aaa', it refuse the Windows-1252 encoding.

Test script:
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<?php
$enc = 'Windows-1252';
if (!in_array($enc, mb_list_encodings())) {
    die($enc.' not supported');
}

$val = '100 '. 0x80; // € sign in cp1252
echo mb_detect_encoding($val, $enc.',ISO-8859-1', true).PHP_EOL;

$val = 'aaa';
echo mb_detect_encoding($val, $enc.',ISO-8859-1', true).PHP_EOL;

Expected result:
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Windows-1252
Windows-1252

Actual result:
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ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-1

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 [2015-12-21 19:14 UTC] ab@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2015-12-21 19:14 UTC] ab@php.net 
Thanks for the report. 

Firstly, with 0x80 you append a number, not a char. Use chr(0x80).

Secondly, a longer string could have more success. It is in general hard to determine some single byte encoding, and it's almost impossible with passing just 5 byte which all are numbers and white space. It can even fail sometime for multibyte encoding. It is unlikely related to a buggy behavior in any way.

Thanks.
 
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