note 38009 deleted from ref.mbstring by ronabop

Note Submitter: mortoray@ecircle-ag.com ---- Overloading PHP string functions. Sometimes, with overloaded functions, you need a way to use the non-overloaded forms (in order to work on string bytes, not characters). I have not found a way to do this, but there is a workaround. You can use the mb_str* functions with "iso-8859-1" character set and it will essentially emulate the non-overloaded functions. I needed the byte length of a multibyte string (for a Content-Length HTTP Header) and so I do this: $length = mb_strlen( $str, "iso-8859-1" );