Re: --enable-zend-multibyte

2010/7/30 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de>: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 00:33 +0200, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: >> > Ignoring the BOF might cause not expected behavior: Assume people are >> > using PHP as "templating" language and want the BOM to go out to the >> > client. > >> Do you think that this is a common scenario? >> Apart from a case, when I had to create utf-8 csv files for Microsoft >> Excel, I never needed to send BOM from php, and for that particular >> case, I sent it with an explicit echo, not with an "invisible" control >> sequence in my code. > > Well, PHP doesn't change what is written outside <?php ?> (*) so hiding > "random" bytes (PHP doesn't know what these bytes mean, PHP only knows > collections of bytes as strings with no further logic) might easily > break expectations and cause problems which are harder to trace down > than a "headers already sent" error which is relatively verbose. > > johannes > > *) Yes there is one behavior which might be seen as an exception: If ?> > is directly followed by a new line the new line is dropped, but then the > new line can be seen part of the ?>. > > Example: > > a<?php > ?> > b > > Prints > > ab > > without line break. > > I see your point. I can not come up anything better than your first idea. Tyrael