Re: Re: Regarding the latest patch on fgetcsv() (stable branch)

Zitat von Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@php.net>: > 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. Maybe. Due to PHP lacking byte stream functions, working with str* is the only solution atm. Jan. -- http://www.horde.org - The Horde Project http://www.ammma.de - discover your knowledge http://www.tip4all.de - Deine private Tippgemeinschaft