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Bug #51321 shows same ascii for two diferent french characters
Submitted: 2010-03-18 12:12 UTC Modified: 2010-03-21 20:04 UTC
From: sharad dot tale at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.3.2 OS: windows xp
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-03-18 12:12 UTC] sharad dot tale at gmail dot com 
Description:
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shows same ascii for two different french characters

Test script:
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<?php

$char1="à";
$chart2="Ã";

echo "Ascii for char1 is =".ord($char1);
echo "<br/>";
echo "Ascii for char2 is =".ord($char2);
?>

Expected result:
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Ascii for char1 is = 224
Ascii for char1 is = 195

Actual result:
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Ascii for char1 is = 195
Ascii for char1 is = 195

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 [2010-03-18 12:14 UTC] sharad dot tale at gmail dot com 
Expected result:
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Ascii for char1 is = 224
Ascii for char2 is = 195

Actual result:
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Ascii for char1 is = 195
Ascii for char2 is = 195
 [2010-03-21 20:04 UTC] johannes@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2010-03-21 20:04 UTC] johannes@php.net 
You're script is encoded using Utf-8 therefore à and à are multibyte characters. ord() gives you the value of the first byte.
 
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