Re: Re: Regarding the latest patch on fgetcsv() (stable branch)
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sat, 13 Dec 2003 16:07:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Regarding the latest patch on fgetcsv() (stable branch) | ||
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Jan Schneider wrote:
> I have to agree. While in the past it helped mb users to turn on overloading
> if they wanted to use our framework, it will now break it. This is because
> we now explicitely use the str*() function for byte-wise string
> manipulation and their mb_*() equivalents for character-wise manipulation.
> This is the only way to predict the results, the magic that is done by
> overloading or transparent charset conversion is not suitable for real
> production environments.
Using str*() functions for octet manipulation is fundamentally wrong.
str*() functions by definition work on character boundaries. If we need
to operate on byte boundaries we need to introduce a set of mem*()
functions.
-Rasmus