RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Regarding the latest patch on fgetcsv() (stable branch)
| From: | Steph | Date: | Sat, 13 Dec 2003 01:43:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Regarding the latest patch on fgetcsv() (stable branch) | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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> > If you get multibyte data from a form and want to perform string
> > operations on
> > it such as strlen(), ereg(), etc... would you not need mb_* or iconv_*
> > functions?
>
> In such a case, yes, I do. But I don't think that's directly related
> to the issue..?
The real question is, what does mbstring do that iconv fails to do? And why
do we need to restore the initial form in any sense? And if iconv were
built-in, would mbstring still be needed, and if so, why and where?
/Steph goes away to read the relevant mbstring documentation