Re: [RFC] Multibyte char handling

On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 07:34 +0900, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > This discussion circulate discussion. I'm also in favor of putting those things in ext/mbstring. > > At first, I proposed locale based solution using php_mblen(). > This approach does not require additional encoding parameter > since encoding is specified by locale. Meh, but would be okay for me. > > However, some people don't like the solution (in security ML) > because it is locale based solution. It may have unwanted side > effects. Locale is unreliable and most user just don't care about it. > > Therefore, I proposed this approach that introduce encoding > parameter just like htmlspecialchars()/htmlentities(). > > Encoding parameter (or some way to specify encoding) for security > related string function is mandatory. We should provide some way > to specify encoding. > Many of us do not have access to that mailing list, so yould you shed some light on the acutal issue? -- Regards, Mike