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Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 20:59:34 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] bitwise operations and Unicode strings
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To: "Antony Dovgal" <antony@zend.com>,
	"php-dev" <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] bitwise operations and Unicode strings
From: andi@zend.com ("Andi Gutmans")

I'd go with (2) for BC sake and as breaking BC here would have very
little value in the first place.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antony Dovgal [mailto:antony@zend.com]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:26 AM
> To: php-dev
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] bitwise operations and Unicode strings
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> Hello.
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> Do you think the engine should support bitwise operators and=20
> Unicode strings?
> If yes, how do you think it should work?
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> Example:
> <?php
> $a =3D "1";
> $a|=3D"2";
> var_dump($a);
> ?>
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> This code outputs "3" in native mode and "Fatal error:=20
> Unsupported operand types" in Unicode mode.
> I believe this is an inconsistency and it should be possible=20
> to use Unicode strings there.
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> There are several possible ways to implement it:
> 1) the same as with native strings - apply the operator to=20
> each element of the string separately;
> 2) convert the string to binary (using say iso-8859-1) and=20
> then see 1);
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> We can also leave it as is (since it doesn't seem very=20
> useful) or even drop the native strings support (it doesn't=20
> seem very useful to me either).
> Opinions?
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> --
> Wbr,
> Antony Dovgal
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