Re: Re: PHP Unicode support design document

Derick Rethans wrote:

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Ron Korving wrote:

"In order to create binary string literals, a new syntax is necessary: prefixing a string literal with letter 'b' creates a binary string." The b-prefix for binary strings is great, but how does that work with a function like file_get_contents() or fread() ? One can't do: $data = bfile_get_contents("somefile.bin");

fopen() and file_get_contents() already understands a context parameter, specifying whethter you'd want to have binary or string/unicode data can be done through that.

We create images in PHP scripts and pass them through with readfile("foo,gif"). Did I understand correctly that this would still work without changes? But echo file_get_contents("foo.gif") would fail, right? This is not a complaint, just trying to understand the implications, - Chris