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Hey, I've been complaining about PHP's lack of Unicode support forever. Every time I do, though, an apologist comes out of the woodwork to tell me about the mb_
by MostAwesomeDude 15y ago
Hey, I've been complaining about PHP's lack of Unicode support forever. Every time I do, though, an apologist comes out of the woodwork to tell me about the mb_*() functions. Apparently the PHP community is quite comfortable not caring about non-ASCII characters.
- cheald 15y agoI brought down a production site by innocently changing some string ops to mb_* string ops. It turns out that they're so slow as to be useless.
- ars 15y agoI use unicode all the time, and I have not had any trouble. All the php functions are binary safe. If you use utf-8 you won't have any touble. Do you have actual real issues, or do you just like to complain about things you heard other people say?
- nosnih 15y agohttp://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-what-happened-to-unicode-and-php-6 http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-... Andrei Zmievski has been giving this presentation on what happened to Unicode in PHP. A huge amount of work went into making it happen but it eventually could not continue due to several reasons, including design decisions, lack of contributors & interest in the project.