On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:38 PM, John Crenshaw <johncrens...@priacta.com> wrote:
> This mindset is fundamentally broken. You can call it a byte array all you > want, but the truth is that 99.999% of the time, when a developer is using a > string they need it for characters, not for bytes Let me rephrase: For backward compatibility reasons we cannot change this behavior. Any serious text processing should be done using intl, mbstring, transliterator (pecl) or other similar solutions. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
