Re: Status of Multibyte support in PHP

Hi, On 2004/08/28, at 5:15, Al Baker wrote:

I'm trying to find status on the multibyte support in PHP. The manual shows the functions in mbstring to be experimental and it's hard to find evidence of how stable it really is.

Which manual says that mbstring is still experimental? :) it was marked "not experimental" two years ago. No matter what that says, and no matter who says it's experimental, it's been used for a fairly long time by lots of people and I've never heard of a serious flaw / deficiency in its functionality. There are also some alternatives that'd be worth paying attention to: - PHP5 iconv extension - php-i18n project led by l0t3k

Is this natively supported in PHP after 4.3.x?

While the extension is there, PHP doesn't yet natively supports multibyte encodings in the sense that the language implementation always works singlebyte-wise and doesn't automagicallytake care of these fancy characters. Moriyoshi