Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status:
Open
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: None
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Labels:None
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Environment:PHP 5.3.7, Symfony 1.4.13
Description
While trying to develop a new Symfony frontend to an existing database - whcih unfortunately contains non-ascii character names - I ran into a lot of problems where non-ascii characters had been mangled.
After installing XDebug and digging into the issue I found that the use of strtolower on the column names was the issue, since it's not safe to use on UTF-8 strings.
I replaced all calls to strtolower with mb_strtolower and UTF-8 encoding which solved my issue. I don't know if that is the correct way of doing it or if there is a better way.
I saw one other use of mb_strtolower in doctrine and it was guarded with an if function exists... Also it might be an issue in other files as well...
I provide my patch file incase it is of any use.