Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:22:49 +0300 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: php-general@lists.php.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: iconv() in PHP returns 'Unknown error 0' Message-ID: <431EB169.7010602@raad.tartu.ee>
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Hello!
I am managing a FreeBSD 4.11 server which is currently running PHP=20
4.3.11. The server was originally installed in 2003 with an older=20
version of PHP and libiconv 1.8. All software has been installed from=20
FreeBSD ports. Over the time PHP has been upgraded several times, but=20
libiconv has remained untouched:
mail# pkg_info | grep iconv
libiconv-1.8_2 A character set conversion library
php4-iconv-4.3.11 The iconv shared extension for php
There was a time when PHP's iconv() function definitely worked on this=20
server, but now it seems to have a problem. I copied and pasted this=20
simple test script from www.php.net:
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<?php
echo iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", "This is a test.");
?>
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When I load this script via the browser, PHP outputs nothing. I have=20
error logging set to file only, and in the log file there is this error:
[07-Sep-2005 12:10:07] PHP Notice: iconv(): Unknown error (0) in=20
/storage/www/iconvtest.php on line 2
This is the only error I see in PHP's error log or any other logfile=20
with similar timestamp.
The iconv extension is loaded and can be seen in output of phpinfo().
I read that sometimes on FreeBSD you need to use libiconv() instead of=20
iconv(), but this is not the case here - when I replace iconv() with=20
libiconv() I get "PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function:=20
libiconv()".
I can successfully run iconv from command line:
$ echo This is a test. > iconvtest
$ iconv -f "ISO-8859-1" -t "UTF-8" iconvtest
This is a test.
Is it possible that my problem is caused by anything *else* than iconv=20
library being out of date compared to PHP's iconv extension? If I need=20
to update libiconv, I also need to update lot of things that depend on=20
it, and this takes some time. If there is some quicker way to get PHP's=20
iconv extension functional, I'd prefer to use that for now.
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