sylae
commented
8 years ago string dereferencing ($string[0]) cannot be used. That sucks because that's, like, the only new thing PHP has added in the last decade that isn't something about OO.
Closed sylae closed 7 years ago
sylae
commented
8 years ago string dereferencing ($string[0]) cannot be used. That sucks because that's, like, the only new thing PHP has added in the last decade that isn't something about OO.
sylae
commented
8 years ago It appears that the default_charset ini setting is to our advantage. From 5.5 (?) onwards, it is set to UTF-8, before that it's set to some garbage that isn't UTF-8. So for that, we can either drop 5.4 (?) support (which is already planned, kind of), or just check that the INI value is properly set, and if not, either shit self or set it.
It looks like anything touching a string will just need to use the mb_ version instead (installed by default from debian, so that's nice), so this shouldn't be too difficult.
sylae
commented
7 years ago so actually in my experience unicode has been great, it's fucking html entities that kill us. huh
clooooossssiiinnnggggg
(Blocks #4)
Although it's something I haven't dealt with too much, PHP apparently has historically poor Unicode support. We should make sure all functions fucking with strings are multibyte-safe.