2024年8月12日(月) 1:42 Anton Smirnov <sand...@sandfox.me>: > > Hi Nick, > > As a developer who often deals with binary data (like bencode, ipv6 > addresses and my own hacks for multibyte arithmetic) I would prefer that > functions and syntaxes that allow me to work with bytes keep working > with bytes, not characters or code points. So the closest solution would > be separate binary/text strings, but then we have PHP6 all over again. > Maybe this time it might work in some form, who knows. > > On 8/11/24 18:50, Nick Lockheart wrote: > > > > HTML 5 was adopted in 2014, over ten years ago. HTML 5 only supports > > the UTF-8 multi-byte character encoding. > > > > It seems like there's still a lot of string functions that assume that > > a character is a single byte, and these may actually work as expected > > when dealing with Latin characters, but may fail unexpectedly if a > > sequence is more than one byte. > > > > Are there any use cases for PHP where **single-byte** characters are > > the norm? > > > > It seems that if everything on the Internet is multi-byte encoded now, > > then all of the PHP string functions should be multi-byte safe. > > > > > > The WHATWG Encoding Standard: > > > > https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/ > > > > Also, according to Mozilla, "[The meta charset] attribute declares the > > document's character encoding. If the attribute is present, its value > > must be an ASCII case-insensitive match for the string "utf-8", because > > UTF-8 is the only valid encoding for HTML5 documents." > > > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/meta#charset
Hi Nick I'm confused what is "multibyte safe". Usually, PHP's string type is binary. https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php If you want to use multibyte character, you can use mbstring functions. (Is "multibyte safe" says about mbstring functions?) https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.mbstring.php There is no consistent solution I think, because you have to think a lot about multibyte characters. Regards Yuya -- --------------------------- Yuya Hamada (tekimen) - https://tekitoh-memdhoi.info - https://github.com/youkidearitai -----------------------------
