On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 10:43 AM Christoph M. Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
> recently, there was a bug report regarding declare(encoding)[1]. I've > checked that, and found that the current implementation of > declare(encoding) doesn't make sense regarding "block mode", since this > is completely ignored; instead, each (allowed) declare(encoding) works > from where it is written till the next declare(encoding) (well, probably > more or less). > > Since I consider switching the character encoding in the middle of a > file not reasonable (and it might be hard to properly implement support > for that), I suggest to disallow block mode for declare(encoding) as of > PHP 8.3. A respective PR is available[2]. > > I think I can imagine scenarios where switching encodings within a file would.... work? Especially for ASCII transparent encodings... That said, if you're currently depending on multiple encodings in a single file then you probably deserve whatever you get. +1 -Sara
