One caveat: until the mythical PHP 6 comes out, if you're using unicode at all you should be using the multibyte string functions. http://www.php.net/manual/en/

One caveat: until the mythical PHP 6 comes out, if you're using unicode at all you should be using the multibyte string functions. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php Python has had unicode support for a while and generally does the right thing, something that might be missed with blind PHP replication.