From:             
Operating system: WinXP, Linux Debian
PHP version:      Irrelevant
Package:          Strings related
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:$str[] unexpected result with multibyte character

Description:
------------
When you access a multibyte character in an UTF-8 encoded string using
array 

brackets [] it only returns the first byte instead of the full character.



WindowsXP SP3 PHP 5.3.0

WindowsXP SP3 PHP 5.3.2

Linux Debian  PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny8

Linux Debian  PHP 5.3.2-0.dotdeb.2



PHP Ini settings:

default_charset = "utf-8"

mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8

mbstring.func_overload = 7



http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.substr

Test script:
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<?php



    $sStr = "André";



    var_dump($sStr);

    var_dump($sStr[4]);



?>

Expected result:
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string(6) "André" 

string(1) "é"

Actual result:
--------------
string(6) "André" 

string(1) "�"

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Fixed in SVN:                        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=fixed
Fixed in SVN and need be documented: 
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Fixed in release:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=alreadyfixed
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Need Reproduce Script:               
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Try newer version:                   
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Not developer issue:                 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=support
Expected behavior:                   
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51919&r=mysqlcfg

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