Hello!
I am managing a FreeBSD 4.11 server which is currently running PHP
4.3.11. The server was originally installed in 2003 with an older
version of PHP and libiconv 1.8. All software has been installed from
FreeBSD ports. Over the time PHP has been upgraded several times, but
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
server, but now it seems to have a problem. I copied and pasted this
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
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
/storage/www/iconvtest.php on line 2
This is the only error I see in PHP's error log or any other logfile
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
iconv(), but this is not the case here - when I replace iconv() with
libiconv() I get "PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function:
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
library being out of date compared to PHP's iconv extension? If I need
to update libiconv, I also need to update lot of things that depend on
it, and this takes some time. If there is some quicker way to get PHP's
iconv extension functional, I'd prefer to use that for now.
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