Re: strlen and multi-byte characters

From: Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:41:41 +0000
Subject: Re: strlen and multi-byte characters
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Adam Kazimierczak <kazymjir@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello Mailing List, > > I found that strlen is often considered as a function that counts > characters in strings, rather than bytes. Such mistake is even often seen > on blogs or tutorials, so many PHP beginners may get confused when they try > to strlen a multi-byte characters string. > > I am attaching a patch proposition where the description notes that length > is measured in bytes and adds an example showing results of strlen used on > multi-byte character strings. > > Please let me know what do you think about this. > +1 from me. > > Cheers, > Adam >

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