> From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre....@gmail.com] > > 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
Right, I totally agree. We can't fix the multibyte string issue today; I'm just saying that we *can* (and should) avoid making it much worse. John Crenshaw Priacta, Inc. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
