Bug #44096 [Com]: iconv: wrong charset

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44096&edit=1

 ID:                 44096
 Comment by:         michal at cihar dot com
 Reported by:        cpuidle at gmx dot de
 Summary:            iconv: wrong charset
 Status:             No Feedback
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            ICONV related
 Operating System:   WinXP
 PHP Version:        5.2.5
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

We've seen this several times on phpMyAdmin, see
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/11787/

In most cases this has happened on Windows or Mac, though there are few errors from Linux servers as well. Happens with many PHP versions (at least 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and 7.0).


Previous Comments:
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[2014-07-15 21:19:58] aj07mm at hotmail dot com

Same prob here

Notice: iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from `utf8' to `ascii//TRANSLIT' is not allowed

my charset:

  'input_encoding' => string 'ISO-8859-1' (length=10)
  'output_encoding' => string 'ISO-8859-1' (length=10)
  'internal_encoding' => string 'ISO-8859-1' (length=10)

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[2010-06-07 23:22:39] icovt at yahoo dot com

mod_php iconv() is not working properly if your apache is chrooted and you do not 
have the content of /usr/lib/gconv/ folder into your relative chroot path (i.e. 
/your/chroot/path/usr/lib/gconv/). 
You can simply do: 
cp /usr/lib/gconv/* /your/chroot/path/usr/lib/gconv/
... and re-try.

This was a fix for me, hope this could save time for somebody else.

P.S. Btw, initially iconv() called from command line (using php cli) was OK.

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[2009-03-10 13:31:55] cancausecancerr at yahoo dot com dot cn

I found my problem. It was 'utf8' vs. 'utf-8'. 

I peeked inside Zend Lucene Lucene's code and saw it was looking for 'utf8' or 'utf-8' so I thought I'd save a byte and take 'utf8' (shakes fist at Zend then at self:: for being cheap). 

I echo'd out what Zend Lucene was populating the iconv() with and that's where I saw my prob.

As for the reason my english data wasn't raising this error, I indexed those tables with 'utf-8'.

So it seems my error was the same as everyone elses (encoding type didn't exist on my systema)

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[2009-03-10 12:58:53] cancausecancerr at yahoo dot com dot cn

I got the error while querying a lucene index I just created from a mysql utf8 table (populated with danish data). When I created the index I used 'utf8' while adding fields so everything should be fine. I don't get the error when I query my other tables which have english data and were created in exactly the same manner.

Notice: iconv() [function.iconv]: Wrong charset, conversion from `utf8' to `ASCII//TRANSLIT' is not allowed in Z:\Zend\Search\Lucene\Analysis\Analyzer\Common\Text.php on line 57

Windows NT 5.1 build 2600
Apache/2.2.4
MySQL 5.1.22-rc-community
PHP Version 5.2.6

PHPINFO ICONV:
iconv support 	enabled
iconv implementation 	"libiconv"
iconv library version 	1.11

Directive	Local Value	Master Value
iconv.input_encoding	ISO-8859-1	ISO-8859-1
iconv.internal_encoding	ISO-8859-1	ISO-8859-1
iconv.output_encoding	ISO-8859-1	ISO-8859-1

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[2009-02-26 06:25:15] aboh24 at gmx dot de

Same problem on Solaris 10 and explicit compiled and  linked libiconv-1.12 and php 5.2.8. with --with-iconv-dir=<path to libiconv-1.12 lib>

PHP Notice:  iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from `UTF-8' to `ASCII//TRANSLIT' is not allowed in /sisis/home/sisis/suchopac/query.php on line 39
PHP Notice:  iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from `ASCII' to `UTF-8//TRANSLIT' is not allowed in /sisis/home/sisis/suchopac/query.php on line 40
PHP Notice:  iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from `UTF-8' to `ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT' is not allowed in /sisis/home/sisis/suchopac/query.php on line 42
PHP Notice:  iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from `ISO-8859-1' to `UTF-8//TRANSLIT' is not allowed in /sisis/home/sisis/suchopac/query.php on line 43

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