Re: Re: mbstring

I'm going to argue about it (fiercely :) if/when it becomes more relevant, but not a microsecond sooner... Zeev At 11:38 03/09/2002, derick@php.net wrote:

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?