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To: Jordan LeDoux <jordan.ledoux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC [Discussion]: Randomizer Additions
From: claude.pache@gmail.com (Claude Pache)



> Le 28 oct. 2022 =C3=A0 23:43, Jordan LeDoux <jordan.ledoux@gmail.com> =
a =C3=A9crit :
>=20
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:30 PM Joshua R=C3=BCsweg via internals <
> internals@lists.php.net> wrote:
>=20
> Not to try and bikeshed further, but wouldn't `getBytesFromChars` or
> `getBytesFromCharList` be more clear while being nearly as accurate?
>=20
> Jordan


In the face of multibyte character sets such as UTF-8, I wouldn=E2=80=99t =
use =E2=80=9Cchar=E2=80=9D to mean =E2=80=9Cbyte=E2=80=9D (even if, in =
practice, the most common use will be strings of 1-byte chars). =
=E2=80=9CAlphabet=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cstring=E2=80=9D might be =
ambiguous (is it an alphabet of bytes or an alphabet of characters?), =
but at least they are not contradictory.

=E2=80=94Claude=