Could not represent. Need more info about env: OS, PHP version. If it's a dockerized app it would be good to have image data.

• PHP 7.3.9
• Windows 10 Pro [build 18362.959]

Please upgrade to version 5.1.3. See #37385. This should fix your issue.

• Updated to 5.1.3
• Test was same as starting message
  No, this doesn't fix this. It can read chars, but writes question marks instead valid input.

Maybe it only my problem with my cmd/powershell, idk anyway

• Updated to 5.1.3
• Test was same as starting message
  No, this doesn't fix this. It can read chars, but writes question marks instead valid input.

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Maybe it only my problem with my cmd/powershell, idk anyway

I don't really understand what do you mean by writing the question marks instead the input: the question marks is written and when you type these characters, the default input is printed? Maybe the CMD does not support these specific characters.

Can you try this example in a simple PHP script?

<?php

echo 'Type here: ';
$input = readline();
echo $input;

@infureal

Type here: Привет
Привет

Yeap, as expected, got me same input

writing the question marks

Nope, output writes questions marks

Type here: Привет
Привет

Yeap, as expected, got me same input

So, it's not your terminal that throw this issue apparently. However you should investigate about the encoding with sapi_windows_cp_set. Apparently, my fix did not cover all cases.

Hi @infureal!

I've done some tests on my local machine but I did not find any solution for your issue 😔 However, there is some code page which works: 855 and 866 that you can define with the function sapi_windows_cp_set (see here & this function only works on Windows). However, with this code page, it will break other characters like é or â.

@YaFou
It seems that my PowerShell is broken... I had to fix that and if 'bug' isn't disapere - I'll open new issue with more derails.
(Sorry for my englandsky 😄)