Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47082 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 74559 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2010 10:25:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Mar 2010 10:25:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:47113] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id BE/E0-01851-E87EC8B4 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:25:20 -0500 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57BC310C828; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:25:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:25:15 +0000 (GMT) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.derickrethans.nl To: Victor Bolshov cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <3B776C158D8E4D8D8DEB11A9860B6734@pc> <4B8C3F45.2080502@daylessday.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Scary note for gettype() in docs From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Victor Bolshov wrote: > From the user point of view it might seem that 5.x "string" and 6.x > "unicode" are all strings, whatever you call them. Still, I am sure > there _is_ a background for the decision to distinguish between > "string" and "unicode". Yes, there *has* to be a difference between "string" and "unicode" because otherwise you can't distinguish between binary goo and strings. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org twitter: @derickr