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Bug #23449 htmlentities encodes U+2225 and friends incorrectly
Submitted: 2003-05-02 05:21 UTC Modified: 2003-05-02 06:03 UTC
From: brofield at jellycan dot com Assigned: moriyoshi (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 4.3.1 OS: windows 2000
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-05-02 05:21 UTC] brofield at jellycan dot com 
There seems to be a bug in htmlentities() utf-8 conversion. The unicode character U+2225 ?a gets converted into ∩ which is the html entity for the unicode character U+2229 ??.  It should be using ∥ to get the correct symbol.

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 [2003-05-02 05:28 UTC] brofield at jellycan dot com 
Calling syntax is...

$str = htmlentities( "string containing U+2225", ENT_QUOTES, "utf-8" );

Other incorrect conversions seem to abound...

$str = ctwEncodeUtf8( "∥∦∧∨∩∪∫" );
echo $str.'<br>';
$str = htmlentities( $str, ENT_QUOTES, "utf-8" );
echo $str.'<br>';
echo htmlentities( $str, ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8' ).'<br>';
exit;

Note: ctwEncodeUtf8 is the same function as found at http://www.zend.com/codex.php?id=838&single=1


Results:

?a&#8742;?ȁɁ?????
???????Ɂ?????
&cap;&cup;&int;?Ɂ?????

The first and second lines should be the same.
 [2003-05-02 05:30 UTC] brofield at jellycan dot com 
For some reason the summary got changed. Changed it back.
 [2003-05-02 05:58 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net 
Verified.
 [2003-05-02 06:03 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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