On Tue, Mar 26, 2024, at 18:15, Derick Rethans wrote: > Many of these already exist, such as grapheme_substr. We can't simply change > the behaviour of the already existing functions due to BC reasons.
Wow. I feel very stupid. I feel I should have known about grapheme_*, but I didn't. Oh my, the manual says since PHP 5.3 no less. From what I've seen around being used, I'm far from the only one though. In an attempt to justify my own stupidity I searched its use and it's bad. Searching on github with language:PHP: `mb_strlen` 84k files, `grapheme_strlen` 680 Then a big number of first 100 of these files are stubs/polyfills/phpstan metadata. I've seen no framework except Symphony (but they might be further in the searchresults) > The grapheme_str_split function, as well as other intl extension functions is > what should replace mbstring really. YES! I'm sorry to have wasted your time. If you need someone to help for the grapheme_ marketing team, let me know.
