note 126043 added to language.types.string

I've been a programmer in assembler(8086), GwBasic, C (++), Java (bytecode), etc. for a long time. I read in the present page : "Strings A string is series of characters, where a character is the same as a byte. This means that PHP only supports a 256-character set, ... ..... Details of the String Type The string in PHP is implemented as an array of bytes and an integer indicating the length of the buffer. ..... " Therefore I'm quite sure that a PHP string (a Zend string) IS NOT an array() i.e. a map with keys and values, but an "array as in Pascal"(size indicated, no ending NULL char) ! Hey guys, may you clearly and precisely explain this here ? Sincerely. Alain. ---- Server IP: 45.112.84.4 Probable Submitter: 45.112.85.242 (proxied: 109.213.153.112) ---- Manual Page -- https://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php Edit -- https://main.php.net/note/edit/126043 Del: integrated -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126043/integrated Del: useless -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126043/useless Del: bad code -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126043/bad+code Del: spam -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126043/spam Del: non-english -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126043/non-english Del: in docs -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126043/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126043 Reject -- https://main.php.net/note/reject/126043 Search -- https://main.php.net/manage/user-notes.php