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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 12:21:21 -0700
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To: Claude Pache <claude.pache@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC [Discussion]: Randomizer Additions
From: jordan.ledoux@gmail.com (Jordan LeDoux)

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On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 6:10 AM Claude Pache <claude.pache@gmail.com> wrote=
:

>
>
> > Le 28 oct. 2022 =C3=A0 23:43, Jordan LeDoux <jordan.ledoux@gmail.com> a
> =C3=A9crit :
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:30 PM Joshua R=C3=BCsweg via internals <
> > internals@lists.php.net> wrote:
> >
> > Not to try and bikeshed further, but wouldn't `getBytesFromChars` or
> > `getBytesFromCharList` be more clear while being nearly as accurate?
> >
> > 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 practi=
ce, 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 ar=
e
> not contradictory.
>
> =E2=80=94Claude


Well... perhaps. But "get bytes from character list" would do exactly what
it says it will do, even from UTF-8 strings. It will use any of the bytes
from the character list, even if one character in the list may contribute
multiple bytes to choose from. It is *not* contradictory, just potentially
confusing about the result

Jordan

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