On Aug 10, 2005, at 3:54 AM, Antony Dovgal wrote:
Do we really need such kind of magic?

I think it may be pretty confusing when after echo'ing or print'ing a variable you can see one output, but after writing the very same variable into a file
you can see something completely different.

Absolutely, we do need it. Consider that the internal encoding is UTF-16 and outputting that directly to a terminal (or browser) is bound to cause havoc. That's just one of the examples.

-Andrei

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