1. The number of CHARs isn't unrelevant in a general manner. It depents on the application, even if the trend goes towards UTF8 for websites.
2. Within 10 years, you could have come to a working solution which could please us all. 3. Stop flaming and focus on your other day-job instead. 2011/6/22 Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> > > > Am 22.06.2011 16:49, schrieb Ferenc Kovacs: > > after 10 years i want solutions where it is not the road to hell > using any > > string function on user-input and since PHP6 seems to be quite dead > > it feels there will never be a trustable solution > > > > > > you made my day. > > boy :) > > after fetch a mail-client which does not convert plain-text to html > tell me how long should we wait until as example strlen() does return > the number of CHARS instead bytes because this low level information > is not needed on the script side and simply wrong by multibyte input > > what happended with PHP6? > > > > >