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Bug #27668 ctype_alpha fails to identify some characters
Submitted: 2004-03-24 02:11 UTC Modified: 2015-04-12 20:28 UTC
From: amd at tt dot ee Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Languages/Translation
PHP Version: 4.3.4 OS: Gentoo Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2004-03-24 02:11 UTC] amd at tt dot ee
Description:
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ctype_alpha fails to identify at least two iso-8859-15 characters: s-caron (?) and z-caron (?) and their upper-case equivalents.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL,'et_EE');
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-15;");
$strings = array('???aa','sete','a?ew', 'a?e','????','te?t','?ombie');
foreach ($strings as $testcase) {
	if (ctype_alpha($testcase)) {
		echo "Alpha test - $testcase - PASSED.<br />\n";
	} else {
		echo "Alpha test - $testcase - FAILED.<br />\n";
	}
}
?>

Expected result:
----------------
Alpha test - ???aa - PASSED.
Alpha test - sete - PASSED.
Alpha test - a?ew - PASSED.
Alpha test - a?e - PASSED.
Alpha test - ???? - PASSED.
Alpha test - te?t - PASSED.
Alpha test - ?ombie - PASSED.

Actual result:
--------------
Alpha test - ???aa - PASSED.
Alpha test - sete - PASSED.
Alpha test - a?ew - FAILED.
Alpha test - a?e - FAILED.
Alpha test - ???? - PASSED.
Alpha test - te?t - FAILED.
Alpha test - ?ombie - FAILED.

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 [2004-03-25 10:44 UTC] derick@php.net
This is not a bug in PHP as PHP uses the OS functions to determine wheather something is an alpha character or not. Also, this has nothing to do with character sets at all, it's just the locale that matters. Do you actually have the et_EE locale installed? Anyway, this is not a bug in PHP.
 [2011-09-22 14:14 UTC] garioch2 at googlemail dot com
Actually there seems to be a problem with this function, 

I am german, and certainly the locale-Pack for de_DE,utf-8 is installed and i can use it for other things like printing dates in the correct language (month-names). But in case of ctype_alpha I get always the answer FALSE if testing a word containing one of the typical german letters ä,ö,ü,ß (and their capital counterparts) ..
 [2015-04-12 20:28 UTC] cmb@php.net
> I am german, and certainly the locale-Pack for de_DE,utf-8 is
> installed [...]

ctype_isalpha() relies on isalpha() which is locale aware, but
doesn't properly handle multibyte encodings such as UTF-8, see bug
#63663.
 
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