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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 18:02:39 -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 12:21 PM Jordan LeDoux <jordan.ledoux@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
>
> 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
>

On second thought, isn't it possible to simply choose a random integer to
correspond with the char list position instead, sidestepping the UTF-8
issue entirely? In which case, it might be more accurate to name it just
`getRandomCharFromList`

Jordan

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