#36024 [Opn]: Problem with unicode escape sequences in binary data

ID: 36024 User updated by: mauroi at digbang dot com Reported By: mauroi at digbang dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: * PHP Version: 5.1.2 New Comment: I could send a patch with a sinonym for the not overloaded strlen function.... My two cents (and three lines :o) ) Thanks in advance. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-01-16 00:35:31] mauroi at digbang dot com Description: ------------ This is not a bug itself, but it's a problem that I run into often because I develop unicode applications with mbstring overloading functions. Whenever I try to know the length of binary information (for example, a lob retrieved from the database, in order to set the content-length header) I get errors because raw bytes inside the variable are interpreted as unicode escape sequences. So the length returned by strlen is less than the correct one. See Bug #35412 for a similar situation (there might be more). In that cases I use mb_strlen($str, 'ASCII') but it would be nice to have a function called bytecount or something like that. Maybe there are already plans for this in PHP6 with the new unicode thing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36024&edit=1