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Bug #77766 mb_detect_encoding() returns false for strings with any chr(128..193|245..255)
Submitted: 2019-03-18 14:55 UTC Modified: 2019-03-18 15:47 UTC
From: ca at lsp dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: mbstring related
PHP Version: 7.2.16 OS: Linux + Windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2019-03-18 14:55 UTC] ca at lsp dot net
Description:
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`mb_detect_encoding()` fails if `$str` contains an ASCII character between 128 and 193 or between 245 and 255.

I noticed this after getting exceptions when importing emails (into MySQL 8 using PDO with utf8mb4). The email had raw non-breaking spaces (i.e. ` ` in decoded form) and, apparently, PDO couldn't properly encode them:

$sql = "INSERT INTO `emails` (..., `body`, ...) VALUES (..., '...\xA0...', ...)";
$pdo->query($sql);

SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect string value: '...\xA0...' for column ...

Workaround: Encode the value or query conditionally (if `mb_detect_encoding() === false`) using `utf8_encode`.

P.S.: Quoting the value using `PDO::quote` and/or using a prepared statement yielded the same result.

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From manual page: https://php.net/function.mb-detect-encoding
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Test script:
---------------
<?php
var_dump(
    mb_detect_encoding("INSERT INTO `emails` (`body`) VALUES ('Hello\xA0world!')")
);

for ($i = 0; $i <= 255; $i++) {
    $chr = chr($i);
    if (false === mb_detect_encoding($chr)) {
      printf("%d ", $i);
    }
}

Expected result:
----------------
string(5) "UTF-8"

Actual result:
--------------
bool(false)
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 [2019-03-18 15:47 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2019-03-18 15:47 UTC] requinix@php.net
mb_detect_encoding() needs to know the encodings you want to support - given that very many encodings overlap with each other it does not try to test every one known. The default comes from mb_detect_order() which is probably just "ASCII": the bytes up to 127.

Adding a
  mb_detect_order("ISO-8859-1");
(or using that encoding with mb_detect_encoding) will make the script work.
 
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