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To: John Crenshaw <johncrenshaw@priacta.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] foreach() for strings
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:38 PM, John Crenshaw <johncrenshaw@priacta.com> wrote:

> This mindset is fundamentally broken. You can call it a byte array all you want, but the truth is that 99.999% of the time, when a developer is using a string they need it for characters, not for bytes

Let me rephrase:

For backward compatibility reasons we cannot change this behavior.

Any serious text processing should be done using intl, mbstring,
transliterator (pecl) or other similar solutions.

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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