On 22.08.2016 at 12:55, Michael Wallner wrote: > On 22/08/16 12:44, Rowan Collins wrote: > >> As far as I can see, these functions exist because the XML parser >> infrastructure needed them, and someone thought it might be handy to >> expose them to users. Funnily enough, the internal versions actually >> take a parameter for the target encoding, but only support US-ASCII and >> 8859-1: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/xml/xml.c#L283 >> >> If anything, they should probably have a "str_" prefix, and maybe even >> be moved into the string section of the source, exposed in such a way >> that the XML parser can still make use of them. > > Thanks for looking deeper. That makes even more sense now.
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