On 20 May 2023 13:53:20 BST, Niels Dossche <dossche.ni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mb_str_pad
Hi Niels,
This seems like a reasonable addition. My only hesitation is that it will share
with other mbstring functions the slightly dubious definition of "character" as
"code point", rather than "grapheme", when dealing with Unicode strings.
This is most easily demonstrated using combining diacritics, e.g.
"Franc\u{0327}ais" is 9 code points long, but visually identical to the 8 code
point "Fran\u{00E7}ais" used in your examples. Unicode defines "graphemes" or
"grapheme clusters" to better match the common intuition of what a "character"
means.
Perhaps we should instead, or also, add a "grapheme_strpad" function to
ext/intl?
Regards,
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Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]
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