[PHP] iconv() in PHP returns 'Unknown error 0'

Toomas Aas toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee
Wed Sep 7 06:05:11 PDT 2005


Toomas Aas wrote:

> -----------------------------------------------------
> <?php
> echo iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", "This is a test.");
> ?>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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

It looks like I found the solution myself. To my great surprise, the 
order of 'extension' lines in php.ini seems to be significant. As those 
of you who use FreeBSD might know, if you install PHP and a choice of 
extensions from ports, then extensions are described in separate file 
/usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini. I moved the line describing 
'iconv.so' to the first line in this file, and the test script quoted 
above started working as expected.

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