svn: /phpdoc/en/trunk/language/types/ string.xml

mgf Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:42:06 +0000 Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=311966 Log: Improve Strings intro re size of characters and (non-)Unicode support. Changed paths: U phpdoc/en/trunk/language/types/string.xml Modified: phpdoc/en/trunk/language/types/string.xml =================================================================== --- phpdoc/en/trunk/language/types/string.xml 2011-06-09 08:24:12 UTC (rev 311965) +++ phpdoc/en/trunk/language/types/string.xml 2011-06-09 08:42:06 UTC (rev 311966) @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ <!-- FIXME PHP_6 Likely unicode support will alter this --> <para> - A <type>string</type> is series of characters, therefore, a character is - the same as a byte. That is, there are exactly 256 different characters - possible. This also implies that PHP has no native support of Unicode. See + A <type>string</type> is series of characters, where a character is + the same as a byte. This means that PHP only supports a 256-character set, + and hence does not offer native Unicode support. See <function>utf8_encode</function> and <function>utf8_decode</function> for some basic Unicode functionality. </para> @@ -358,8 +358,8 @@ </example> <para> - PHP 5.3.0 also introduces the possibility for Heredocs to - use double quotes in declarings: + Starting with PHP 5.3.0, the opening Heredoc identifier may optionally be + enclosed in double quotes: </para> <example> @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ Illegal offset type emits <constant>E_NOTICE</constant>. Negative offset emits <constant>E_NOTICE</constant> in write but reads empty string. Only the first character of an assigned string is used. - Assigning empty string assigns NUL byte. + Assigning empty string assigns NULL byte. </simpara> </warning>