On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Nikita Popov
> <nikita....@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> We currently have a big mess concerning the behavior of json_encode()
>> with incorrectly encoded UTF-8 strings.
>>
>> To summarize the situation:
>>
>> PHP <= 5.3.13, PHP 5.4, master behave as follows when an invalid UTF-8
>> string is encountered:
>>  * The invalid string is replaced with "null", thus creating a partial
>> JSON serialization
>>  * json_encode() returns the partial serialization, *not* false as it should
>>  * A warning is thrown, but only if display_errors=off
>>  * json_last_error() returns JSON_ERROR_UTF8
>>
>> PHP 5.3.14 behaves as follows:
>>  * json_encode() returns false, as it should
>>  * A warning is thrown always, even with display_errors=on
>>  * json_last_error() returns JSON_ERROR_UTF8
>>  * If the PHP_JSON_PARTIAL_OUTPUT_ON_ERROR option is specified, the
>> old behavior is restored
>>
>> The reason for this situation is that a patch was applied for all
>> branches, and then reverted, because Stas didn't consider the change
>> towards always throwing a warning (even with display_errors=on)
>> appropriate without further discussion.
>
> Well, not sure we have to discuss why such thing is bad.
> display_errors must be respected.

Agree, and it shall be, no any exception.

thanks
>
> Also I suspect that this change should not even be merged in 5.4 nor
> 5.3. At least not without real testing.
>
>> The backout though was done only on PHP 5.4 and master, but *not* on
>> the PHP 5.3 branch.
>>
>> Thus we now have differing behavior between 5.3 and 5.4 (and PHP <= 5.3.13).
>>
>> So, I'd like to ask whether the patch can be reapplied to 5.4 and
>> master or whether we should do something else to solve this problem.
>
> 5.3 should be brought in line with 5.4.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Pierre
>
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