PHP6 Testing & Unicode

Written on May 18, 2008 by Mike Gerwitz

As I was working on the datapack wrapper, typing “strlen()”, I thought of PHP6’s unicode support. I decided that before I went further, I’d download it and test it out to see if the support was exactly what I thought it’d be and how I may need to modify my code in order to ensure that it was both compatiable with PHP6 and backward-compatiable with PHP5.

I’m creating a test script to highlight some changes (mainly unicode) between PHP<6 and PHP6. The code will run on both versions but will yield different results, allowing us to see what we have to deal with. I’ll place the script in SVN once it’s complete for others to look at in the hope that it’ll help clear up some confusion.

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