One at a time. Fundamentally, I am speculating that combining charaacters will not appear in pad characters with any frequency, and therefore we shouldn't worry about the distinction of combining and non-combining, in this SPECIAL instance.
Anyone that has that need, can write a specific function to do what they need. Tex Texin Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrei Zmievski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 1:16 PM > To: Tex Texin > Cc: 'Rolland Santimano'; 'internals' > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: str_pad clarification - Re: > [PHP-DEV] PHP Unicode strings impl proposal > > > Does this mean that if the padding string is base character + two > combining characters, we can trim just one of the combining > ones or do > we trim all the way back to the base one? > > -Andrei > > On Aug 29, 2005, at 5:50 AM, Tex Texin wrote: > > > 4) The string can be truncated to the user's requested character > > length. The > > string will be trimmed from the right one unicode utf-8 > character (not > > grapheme, not byte) at a time until the length limit is met. (So a > > combining > > character is one character for this purpose.) > > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
