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Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:06:27 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bitwise operations and Unicode strings
From: davidc@php.net ("David Coallier")

On 5/29/07, Antony Dovgal <antony@zend.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Do you think the engine should support bitwise operators and Unicode strings?
> If yes, how do you think it should work?
>
> Example:
> <?php
> $a = "1";
> $a|="2";
> var_dump($a);
> ?>
>
> This code outputs "3" in native mode and "Fatal error: Unsupported operand types" in Unicode mode.
> I believe this is an inconsistency and it should be possible to use Unicode strings there.

Definitely

>
> There are several possible ways to implement it:
> 1) the same as with native strings - apply the operator to each element of the string separately;
> 2) convert the string to binary (using say iso-8859-1) and then see 1);

I would probably be for the solution #2 and of course using the
unicode.runtime_encoding ini setting to convert it to binary.


>
> We can also leave it as is (since it doesn't seem very useful) or even drop the native strings support (it doesn't seem very useful to me either).

I think this is a bad choice.. might not be useful to you, but might
be to some other people

> Opinions?
>
> --
> Wbr,
> Antony Dovgal
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