On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Jan Schneider wrote: > I have to agree. While in the past it helped mb users to turn on overloading > if they wanted to use our framework, it will now break it. This is because > we now explicitely use the str*() function for byte-wise string > manipulation and their mb_*() equivalents for character-wise manipulation. > This is the only way to predict the results, the magic that is done by > overloading or transparent charset conversion is not suitable for real > production environments.
Using str*() functions for octet manipulation is fundamentally wrong. str*() functions by definition work on character boundaries. If we need to operate on byte boundaries we need to introduce a set of mem*() functions. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
