id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
21109,maybe_unserialized fails to unserialize multibyte strings (contains solution),veedeezee,,"I've came across a bug trying to fetch a custom theme (http://themeforest.net/item/rebirth-the-wordpress-theme-for-churches/1167055) option (see addendum #1). The value was UTF8 value and unserialization failed. DB values were imported by the means of SQL query.

I applied the following fix:
instead of:

{{{
function maybe_unserialize( $original ) {
	if ( is_serialized( $original ) )  // don't attempt to unserialize data that wasn't serialized going in
            return @unserialize( $original );
    
	return $original;
}
}}}


I had:

{{{
function maybe_unserialize( $original ) {
	if ( is_serialized( $original ) ) { // don't attempt to unserialize data that wasn't serialized going in
        // fix from: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php#76012
        $out = preg_replace('!s:(\d+):""(.*?)"";!se', ""'s:'.strlen('$2').':\""$2\"";'"", $original );
        return @unserialize( $original );
    }
	return $original;
}
}}}


and it worked like a charm.

I also think that it may have some connection to mbstring settings in php.ini on the server.

'''addendum #1'''

{{{
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}}}
",defect (bug),new,normal,Awaiting Review,General,3.4,normal,,has-patch reporter-feedback,