On 22/11/16 12:58, Delmar Wichnieski wrote: > Since there was no answer here on the list, I was feeling alone and afraid > and wondering why no one else has this problem. Delmar I must apologise as I HAD posted a reply, but it did not actually go through ... list in bounce emails mode which I missed ... The simple answer is that strings in PHP are not UTF8 so the 'bug' you are listing is actually that we need to make sure that the single byte buffer for a string is long enough. To ensure UTF8 strings to be handled properly since PHP6 is not going to happen, we have to transfer the simple php strings to mbstring objects. UTF8 is a gambol in PHP if it is going to be transferred properly as a simple string variable and will give string length as bytes rather than characters ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
