Re: [Discussion] Should All String Functions BecomeMulti-Byte Safe?
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:16:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [Discussion] Should All String Functions BecomeMulti-Byte Safe? | ||
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On 12.08.2024 at 11:45, danielhaber@gmail.com wrote:
> After reading Rowan's last message, it feels appropriate to link to this:
>
> "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in
> 2023 (Still No Excuses!)"
>
> https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
I have only skimmed that article, but it looks good. For PHP, though,
the following answer given in the article is very important:
| with a 98% probability, it’s UTF-8.
So we still have to support non UTF-8 encodings. Not all the world's a VAX.
Christoph