Re: Re: mbstring

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 11:20 03/09/2002, derick@php.net wrote: > >strlen -> stringlength... I think this should count the number of > >characters in a string, not the binary length. It would be nice if this > >function (strlen) would be transparent with mb things too, as no code > >needs to be changed then. > > Compatibility is king. strlen() returns the number of bytes, has been for > at least 5 years. You just can't change that because the name is slightly > better or slightly worse. Simply stating "Compability is king." doesn't do it for. And just saying that it "has been like that for at least 5 years" doesn't mean it can not change. It won't break BC at all (not even for the mbstring users, as the mb_strlen() overloads the 'normal' strlen(). Heck, it will even break BC for those users! Also, from the docs (and that is all what should matter to users): strlen (PHP 3, PHP 4 ) strlen -- Get string length Where can I find that it returns the number of bytes? Derick