Re: [SMARTY] Smarty and Unicode

On 28 Feb 2006, at 17:28, Vicente Werner wrote:

My experience is that it just works, no need to do anything -I made a BIG, BIG proyect on it- the main issue with unicode, it's not smarty, it's PHP itself. PHP has a terrible problem with it, since it's not supported natively and the mb extension just sucks -in order to be useable it should be a full replacement for all string related functions, which is not

Yup, I've been keeping tabs on the progress of PHP 6, and I watched a database system do the big switch a couple of years ago. Given the lack of unicode safety in PHP, I would expect to run into problems with things like modifier plugins - all it takes is a single preg_replace or str_replace and it's going to break, so I was wondering how you go about ensuring that doesn't happen. Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture marcus@synchromedia.co.uk | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk