Re: [php6] accepting an ascii string only

Looking only to the tidy extension: tidy_parse_string tidy_parse_file tidy_repair_string tidy_repair_file tidy_getopt tidy::__constructor tidy::parseFile tidy::parseString I would say that others extensions will need too. Think in charset names, options names, options values, etc.. Nuno

That assumes there are a hundred places where you want to receive an ASCII string. Are they really that prevalent? -Andrei On May 15, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Nuno Lopes wrote:

Sorry for the delay. But I think that a new type specifier could be introduced. If not you are saying to extensions writers to duplicate the code below a hundred times: if (zend_parse_parameters(ZEND_NUM_ARGS() TSRMLS_CC, "t", &name, &name_len, &name_type) == FAILURE) { return; } if (name_type == IS_UNICODE) { buf = zend_unicode_to_ascii(name, name_len TSRMLS_CC); if (buf == NULL) {

       php_error(E_WARNING, "my_var has to consist only of ASCII characters");
       RETURN_FALSE;

} } else { buf = (char *) name; } With a new specifier you would be sure that the string you received was ASCII-only and wouldn't have to care with conversions and such.