Re: Re: strlen and multi-byte characters

Below is what I got (php5.4): 1) Script is in utf-8 with BOM encoding. zend.multibyte is enabled (to use this feature, mbstring extension must be enabled). <?php echo strlen('ы'); //russian letter $str = 'aa'; echo "\n" . strlen($str); ?> Output: 1 2 2) Script is in utf-8 encoding. zend.multibyte is disabled. <?php echo strlen('ы'); $str = 'aa'; echo "\n" . strlen($str); ?> Output: 2 4 "Sherif Ramadan" <theanomaly.is@gmail.com> сообщил/сообщила в новостях следующее: news:CAL+t6cGPn+VNzAk+g5i-C4CJLLSOrweAL7rBHco38-T_7OwxLw@mail.gmail.com.... On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Andrey Pashentsev <avp200681@mail.ru> wrote: "Adam Kazimierczak" <kazymjir@gmail.com> сообщил/сообщила в новостях следующее: news:51BA2CC5.3060508@gmail.com... 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. Cheers, Adam Hi Adam I found that strlen is often considered as a function that counts characters in strings, rather than bytes. Don't forget about zend.multibyte feature... If it is on and you have a script in 'utf-8 with BOM' encoding php will detect it and strlen will take this into account. zend.multibyte enables the PHP engine to parse source files that are in multibyte encodings. It has nothing to do with the behavior of strlen, nor does it change the behavior of the function. Cheers, Andy