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Bug #45581 htmlspecialchars() double encoding &#x hex items
Submitted: 2008-07-21 14:14 UTC Modified: 2008-08-10 13:27 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: funky2step at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 5.2.6 OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-07-21 14:14 UTC] funky2step at gmail dot com 
Description:
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Trying to use htmlspecialchars() on a string containing &#xHEX; characters e.g. £
With double encode set to false, it still converts the & to &

Reproduce code:
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$str = "£ one & two";
$out = htmlspecialchars($content, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8', FALSE);
echo $out;

Expected result:
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£ one & two

Actual result:
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£ one & two

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 [2008-07-21 14:21 UTC] funky2step at gmail dot com 
obviously that should have been $out = htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8', FALSE);
:)
 [2008-07-21 16:01 UTC] jani@php.net 
It's just that the function does not understand the hex entities. :)
 [2008-07-22 14:40 UTC] funky2step at googlemail dot com 
Thanks for the prompt reply. I understood though that this function with double encode arg set to false would not act on _any_ existing html entities.
Is there a reason why it does not recognize these codes, or is it an oversight/bug?
 [2008-08-10 13:27 UTC] lbarnaud@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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