mbstring has always had the conversion tables to support CP932 codes
in ku 115-119, and the conversion code for CP5022x has an 'if' clause
specifically to handle such characters... but that 'if' clause was dead
code, since a guard clause earlier in the same function prevented it
from accepting 2-byte characters with a starting byte of 0x93-0x97.
Adjust the guard clause so that these characters can be converted as
the original author apparently intended.
The code which handles ku 115-119 is the part which reads:
} else if (s >= cp932ext3_ucs_table_min && s < cp932ext3_ucs_table_max) {
w = cp932ext3_ucs_table[s - cp932ext3_ucs_table_min];
Previously, mbstring had a special mode whereby it would convert
erroneous input byte sequences to output like "BAD+XXXX", where "XXXX"
would be the erroneous bytes expressed in hexadecimal. This mode could
be enabled by calling `mb_substitute_character("long")`.
However, accurately reproducing input byte sequences from the cached
state of a conversion filter is often tricky, and this significantly
complicates the implementation. Further, the means used for passing
the erroneous bytes through to where the "BAD+XXXX" text is generated
only allows for up to 3 bytes to be passed, meaning that some erroneous
byte sequences are truncated anyways.
More to the point, a search of publically available PHP code indicates
that nobody is really using this feature anyways.
Incidentally, this feature also provided error output like "JIS+XXXX"
if the input 'should have' represented a JISX 0208 codepoint, but it
decodes to a codepoint which does not exist in the JISX 0208 charset.
Similarly, specific error output was provided for non-existent
JISX 0212 codepoints, and likewise for JISX 0213, CP932, and a few
other charsets. All of that is now consigned to the flames.
However, "long" error markers also include a somewhat more useful
"U+XXXX" marker for Unicode codepoints which were successfully
decoded from the input text, but cannot be represented in the output
encoding. Those are still supported.
With this change, there is no need to use a variety of special values
in the high bits of a wchar to represent different types of error
values. We can (and will) just use a single error value. This will be
equal to -1.
One complicating factor: Text conversion functions return an integer to
indicate whether the conversion operation should be immediately
aborted, and the magic 'abort' marker is -1. Also, almost all of these
functions would return the received byte/codepoint to indicate success.
That doesn't work with the new error value; if an input filter detects
an error and passes -1 to the output filter, and the output filter
returns it back, that would be taken to mean 'abort'.
Therefore, amend all these functions to return 0 for success.
This is to match the way that we handle UCS-2. When a BOM is found at
the beginning of a 'UCS-2' string (NOT 'UCS-2BE' or 'UCS-2LE'), we take
note of the intended byte order and handle the string accordingly, but
do NOT emit a BOM to the output. Rather, we just use the default byte
order for the requested output encoding.
Some might argue that if the input string used a BOM, and we are
emitting output in a text encoding where both big-endian and
little-endian byte orders are possible, we should include a BOM in the
output string. To such hypothetical debaters of minutiae, I can only
offer you a shoulder shrug. No reasonable program which handles UCS-2
and UCS-4 text should require a BOM.
Really, the concept of the BOM is a poor idea and should not have been
included in Unicode. Standardizing on a single byte order would have
been much better, similar to 'network byte order' for the Internet
Protocol. But this is not the place to speak at length of such things.
Sigh. I included tests which were intended to check this case in the
test suite for ISO-2022-JP-MS, but those tests were faulty and didn't
actually test what they were supposed to.
Fixing the tests revealed that there were still bugs in this area.
There was a bit of legacy code here which looks like the original author
of mbstring intended to allow conversion of Unicode Private Use Area
codepoints to ISO-2022-JP-KDDI. However, that code never worked.
It set the output variable to values which were not matched by any
of the 'if' clauses below, which meant that nothing was actually
emitted to the output. In other words, if one tried to convert Unicode
to ISO-2022-JP-KDDI, and the Unicode string contained PUA codepoints,
they would be quietly 'swallowed' and disappear.
I don't know what ISO-2022-JP-KDDI byte sequences the author wanted
to map those PUA codepoints to, and anyways, this use case is so obscure
that there is little point in worrying about it. However, it is better
to remove the non-functioning code than to leave it in.
This means that if now one tries to convert PUA codepoints to
ISO-2022-JP-KDDI, those codepoints will be treated as erroneous rather
than silently ignored.
After mb_substitute_character("long"), mbstring will respond to
erroneous input by inserting 'long' error markers into the output.
Depending on the situation, these error markers will either look like
BAD+XXXX (for general bad input), U+XXXX (when the input is OK, but it
converts to Unicode codepoints which cannot be represented in the
output encoding), or an encoding-specific marker like JISX+XXXX or
W932+XXXX.
We have almost no tests for this feature. Add a bunch of tests to
ensure that all our legacy encoding handlers work in a reasonable
way when 'long' error markers are enabled.
Some text encodings supported by mbstring (such as UCS-4) accept 4-byte
characters. When mbstring encounters an illegal byte sequence for the
encoding it is using, it should emit an 'illegal character' marker,
which can either be a single character like '?', an HTML hexadecimal
entity, or a marker string like 'BAD+XXXX'.
Because of the use of signed integers to hold 4-byte characters,
illegal 4-byte sequences with a 'negative' value (one with the high
bit set) were not handled correctly when emitting the illegal char
marker. The result is that such illegal sequences were just skipped
over (and the marker was not emitted to the output). Fix that.
The "wchar" encoding isn't really an encoding -- it's what we
internally use as the representation of decoded characters.
In practice, it tends to behave a lot like the 8bit encoding when
used from userland, because input code units end up being treated
as code points.
This patch removes the wchar encoding from the public encoding
list and reserves it for internal use only.
We're not currently interested in distinguishing between
individual punctuation types, so just merge everything into one
general category to make the property lookup more efficient.
0xffff was used to mark character properties without any members.
This made the code unnecessarily complicated, because we need to
check for 0xffff values when looking up the property ranges. We
can simply encode this as an empty set of ranges.
The ascii to wchar was reporting errors using conv_illegal_output,
while it should have been using WCSGROUP_THROUGH. Effectively that
replaced illegal characters with '?' for the purpose of
identification.
opaque is used by the htmlentities filter, which means that we
end up trying to free the score value as a pointer. Don't try to
be overly tricky here and simply allocate a separate structure
to hold the number of illegal characters and the score.
- Truncated multi-byte characters are treated as an error
- Reject GB18030 4-byte codes which translate to (non-existent)
Unicode codepoints above 0x10FFFF
- Add a number of missing mappings from the GB18030 standards
(These mappings are supported by iconv. I don't know why they were
missing from mbstring.)