Re: unserialize() & unicode issues

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 13.09.2005 13:32, val khokhlov wrote: > > Hello Antony, > > > > Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 11:21:21 AM, you wrote: > > > > AD> Even if the class name is in Unicode, we can try to convert it to ASCII > > AD> and fail only in the case when we can't find its class entry in the > > AD> list. > > I think, it's not the only way. > > If we don't care about being compatible with previous PHP's > > serialize(), a more portable way is to store class/property names in > > unicode (if unicode_semantics=off when serializing, convert hash keys to > > unicode). Since we do know script encoding, we can always downgrade > > unicoded names into local encoding. > > So you propose to store strings/hash keys/class names in Unicode even if > unicode_semantics is Off ? > It looks like adding unnecessary overhead to me. But needed, as even with the semantics off, you can get unicode strings. Which can end up as array keys. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org