Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC [Discussion]: Randomizer Additions

[Claude Pache]

> Le 28 oct. 2022 à 23:43, Jordan LeDoux <jordan.led...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:30 PM Joshua Rüsweg via internals <
> internals@lists.php.net> wrote:
> 
> Not to try and bikeshed further, but wouldn't `getBytesFromChars` or
> `getBytesFromCharList` be more clear while being nearly as accurate?
> 
> Jordan


In the face of multibyte character sets such as UTF-8, I wouldn’t use “char” to 
mean “byte” (even if, in practice, the most common use will be strings of 
1-byte chars). “Alphabet” or “string” might be ambiguous (is it an alphabet of 
bytes or an alphabet of characters?), but at least they are not contradictory.

—Claude
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