Zitat von Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 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.

Maybe. Due to PHP lacking byte stream functions, working with str* is the
only solution atm.

Jan.

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