On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 09:09, Rowan Tommins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Making the extension always available (impossible to compile without it) > is a potential option, and I think has been suggested before; I'm not > sure of the exact pros and cons. > [...] I would personally encourage everyone to have ext/intl installed and use > grapheme_strlen() instead of mb_strlen(), because knowing whether a > particular instance of the string "Nguyễn" is written with 6, 7, or 8 > code points is not nearly as useful as knowing that it looks like 6 > "characters" to a user either way. > Good point. I would like something that can be relied on to convert a strings character encoding... I assume it's a question of ext/mbstring having all of its dependencies already present (easier to compile?), vs ext/intl potentially being more useful (if a little bigger?). Craig
