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Subject: strlen() under unicode.semantics
From: danielc@analysisandsolutions.com (Daniel Convissor)

Hi:

Enjoyed Andrei's talk at the NYPHP Conference last week about unicode in 
PHP 6.  He mentioned that when unicode.semantics is on, strlen() will 
return the number of characters rather than the number of bytes, like 
mb_string() does or strlen() if mbstring.func_overload is on.

The hitch here is there are situations where one needs to know how many 
bytes are in a string.  Is there a function I've overlooked that does 
this or will do this, please?

Thanks,

--Dan

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