I think whenever we are storing data in external source such as
compressed file, shared memory and so on, we need to treat the data
as binary.
On 25-Jul-06, at 6:03 PM, Nuno Lopes wrote:
Hello,
So Andrei asked me to upgrade the zlib extension, but I have a few
questions I would like to discuss with you:
* when receiving an unicode string, what should we do? compress
with as-is, prepend a BOM header (and skip it while
uncompressing)? (now I'm unsure if PHP/ICU uses utf16 in the
machine endianess or not)
* when uncompressing, check for a BOM header and return a unicode
string if it is present? return always a binary string?
I also have another question, but unrelated with the zlib
extension, that is what is a binary string in PHP 6? I think there
were some changes on that part (and there isn't the IS_BINARY by
now) and I don't really now the difference between a binary string
and the old string (aka runtime_encode'd string)
Ilia Alshanetsky
