[2005-06-08 00:28 UTC] markus dot lervik at necora dot fi

Description:
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iconv_strlen seems to have a peculiar bug. It doesn't work when the string searched is less than three characters long (or an empty string), but reports

Notice: iconv_strlen() [function.iconv-strlen]: Unknown error (2) in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/test2.php on line 7

This is tested on PHP 5.0.3 and 5.1 from CVS (2005-06-07), tested with the built-in (glibc 2.3.3) iconv and libiconv 1.9.2 from gnu.org. 

This problem doesn't seem to surface on my Debian 3.1 development server, but I get it on my SuSE 9.2 desktop.

I have tried to set the encodings with iconv_set_encoding() and I have tried to set the encoding as a parameter to iconv_strlen(), both produce the same error.

The other iconv-functions (iconv_strpos, iconv_substr, iconv_strrpos) work fine.

Since the iconv-functions do not seem to work from the commandline (produces an Unknown error(29)), I cannot get a proper strace (strace seems to say that iconv is trying to seek on /dev/pts/5, which apparently is impossible). It doesn't crash apache either, so I'm not sure where I'd grab the backtrace.


List of modules:

mle@linux:~> php -m
[PHP Modules]
bz2
ctype
curl
dom
exif
gd
iconv
libxml
openssl
pcre
PDO
pdo_sqlite
pgsql
posix
session
SimpleXML
soap
SPL
standard
tokenizer
wddx
xml
xmlrpc
xsl
zlib

[Zend Modules]


PHP version: 

mle@linux:~> php --version
PHP 5.1.0-dev (cli) (built: Jun  7 2005 21:30:37) (DEBUG)
Copyright (c) 1997-2005 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies


configure line:

'./configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-openssl' '--with-curl' '--with-zlib' '--with-bz2' '--enable-exif' '--with-gd' '--with-pgsql=/usr' '--enable-soap' '--enable-wddx' '--without-sqlite' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-xsl' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/' '--with-png-dir=/usr/local/' '--without-mysql' '--with-xslt-sablot' '--with-iconv=/usr/local/' '--enable-debug'




Reproduce code:
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<?php
  $x = iconv_strlen("");
  var_dump($x);
?>

Expected result:
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bool(false)

Actual result:
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Notice: iconv_strlen() [function.iconv-strlen]: Unknown error (2) in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/test2.php on line 2
bool(false)