Re: Perl myths?

by ambrus (Abbot)

on Feb 22, 2004 at 13:03 UTC ( [id://330929]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Is it true that PHP has no multibyte (unicode) support?

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Re: Re: Perl myths? by bunnyman (Hermit) on Feb 23, 2004 at 22:56 UTC
In PHP, a character is the same as a byte, that is, there are exactly 256 different characters possible. This also implies that PHP has no native support of Unicode. See utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() for some Unicode support. See the online PHP Manual	[reply]