2011.06.21 17:38 John Crenshaw rašė: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Lester Caine<les...@lsces.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> Pierre Joye wrote: >>>>> >>>>> It depended on ICU there, and I would be against making a core thing >>>>> in >>>>>> PHP 5.x depend on ICU. >>>> >>>> It can and should be done as part of intl, actually. >>>> >>>> But that's somehow unrelated to the proposal here, as it is about >>>> byte, not characters :) >>> >>> I believe this may be where some of the new niggles may be coming from? >>> With >>> browsers returning unicode, it may be that some of the 'extra' >>> characters >>> are being returned as multibyte rather than as single bytes? Such as >>> the >>> problem reported on the general list currently. How do we ensure that >>> we are >>> dealing with single byte character strings nowadays? >> >> As it has been stated numerous times in this thread and other, we do >> not do anything with multi bytes systems, unicode, etc. mbstring and >> intl do, but php's string as of now is all about bytes, array of bytes >> if I may describe them this way. >> >> And we can't change this behavior. > > 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, and characters are > not single byte. Even English users tend to submit Unicode range > characters at an alarming rate. If you're using a WYSIWYG editor, Chrome > will submit non-breaking-spaces as the actual UTF8 encoded character, not > as an HTML encoded entity. Whether developers like it, or even know it, > supporting an extended universal character set is not really optional.
They submit it in utf-8 only if your html form allows them to do that or they don't follow html specification and try to exploit your form. Set form input charset to iso-8859-1 and your nbspace will take only one byte. -- Tomas -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
