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Bug #50028 dirname bug
Submitted: 2009-10-29 00:49 UTC Modified: 2017-10-17 12:30 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 2.0
Reproduced:1 of 2 (50.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: zgq0301 at gmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 5.2.11 OS: win32 only
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-10-29 00:49 UTC] zgq0301 at gmail dot com 
Description:
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function dirname can't return a string which the last character is chinese.



Reproduce code:
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From manual page: function.dirname#Description
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code:
$file="D:\Backup\我的文档\网站根目录d\cms";
echo dirname($file);

then it print D:\Backup;
but when I add a english character:

$file="D:\Backup\我的文档\网站根目录d\cms";
echo dirname($file);

it can well done.

Expected result:
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code:
$file="D:\Backup\我的文档\网站根目录d\cms";
echo dirname($file);

then it print D:\Backup;
but when I add a english character:

$file="D:\Backup\我的文档\网站根目录d\cms";
echo dirname($file);

it can well done.

Actual result:
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code:
$file="D:\Backup\我的文档\网站根目录d\cms";
echo dirname($file);

then it print D:\Backup;
but when I add a english character:

$file="D:\Backup\我的文档\网站根目录d\cms";
echo dirname($file);

it can well done.

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 [2009-10-29 19:55 UTC] sjoerd@php.net 
Thank you for your bug report.

You have html entities in your filename. Html entities are not automatically decoded when used in filenames.
 [2009-10-31 14:00 UTC] kalle@php.net 
sjoerd> Thats bugsweb causing that on unicode characters, first they are converted to entities and then the & is escaped into &. So it ends up with &#XXXX; =)
 [2014-01-30 21:31 UTC] cmbecker69 at gmx dot de 
It seems to me that this is not a bug, but rather a character 
encoding resp. locale related issue.  As the documentation of 
dirname()[1] states:

| dirname() is locale aware, so for it to see the correct 
| directory name with multibyte character paths, the matching 
| locale must be set using the setlocale() function.

FWIW: Assuming UTF-8, the test script could be written:

  $file = "D:\\Backup\\\xE6\x88\x91\xE7\x9A\x84\xE6\x96\x87"
    . "\xE6\xA1\xA3\\\xE7\xBD\x91\xE7\xAB\x99\xE6\xA0\xB9"
    . "\xE7\x9B\xAE\xE5\xBD\x95\cms";
  echo dirname($file);

[1] <http://php.net/manual/en/function.dirname.php#refsect1-function.dirname-notes>
 [2017-10-17 12:30 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2017-10-17 12:30 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Closing according to previous comment.
 
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