Bug Report #3210

Kohana core fails if php file saved in not utf-8 encoding

Added by Alexey Kruchenok over 2 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:Closed Start date:08/31/2010
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:Woody Gilk % Done:

0%
Category:Core
Target version:v3.0.8
Resolution:invalid Points:

Description

Kohana fails badly with
ErrorException [ 2 ]: htmlspecialchars(): Invalid multibyte sequence in argument ~ SYSPATH\classes\kohana\core.php [ 1355 ]

when php file have comment in national language, and saved in other than utf-8 encoding (in my case is cp1251 standard windows encoding for russia)

as i understand that error is rised when error reporting mechanism tries to display this comment, when i save php in utf-8 everything is fine.

hello.php - example of file causing such problems (221 Bytes) Alexey Kruchenok, 08/31/2010 05:22 pm

History

#1
Updated by Jeremy Bush over 2 years ago

Try changing Kohana::$charset

I had a similar problem with incoming emails in unknown charsets.

#2
Updated by Alexey Kruchenok over 2 years ago

in my case change to utf-8 encoding work pretty fine. But i think that "ErrorException [ 2 ]: htmlspecialchars(): Invalid multibyte sequence in argument " is very confusing behavor.

#3
Updated by Isaiah DeRose-Wilson over 2 years ago

  • Subject changed from Cohana core fails if php file saved in not utf-8 encoding to Kohana core fails if php file saved in not utf-8 encoding

#4
Updated by Woody Gilk over 2 years ago

  • Category set to Core
  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Assignee set to Woody Gilk
  • Target version set to v3.0.8
  • Resolution set to invalid

Kohana cannot detect these kinds issues and provide more information. You need to ensure that your environment works properly by using a single character set (preferably "utf-8") for all files, as well as input and output. Kohana can help with the input and output, but not much else.

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