On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >>> >>> It depended on ICU there, and I would be against making a core thing in >>> > PHP 5.x depend on ICU. >> >> It can and should be done as part of intl, actually. >> >> But that's somehow unrelated to the proposal here, as it is about >> byte, not characters :) > > I believe this may be where some of the new niggles may be coming from? With > browsers returning unicode, it may be that some of the 'extra' characters > are being returned as multibyte rather than as single bytes? Such as the > problem reported on the general list currently. How do we ensure that we are > dealing with single byte character strings nowadays?
As it has been stated numerous times in this thread and other, we do not do anything with multi bytes systems, unicode, etc. mbstring and intl do, but php's string as of now is all about bytes, array of bytes if I may describe them this way. And we can't change this behavior. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
