From:             mauroi at digbang dot com
Operating system: *
PHP version:      5.1.2
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  Problem with unicode escape sequences in binary data

Description:
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This is not a bug itself, but it's a problem that I run into often because
I develop unicode applications with mbstring overloading functions.
Whenever I try to know the length of binary information (for example, a
lob retrieved from the database, in order to set the content-length
header) I get errors because raw bytes inside the variable are interpreted
as unicode escape sequences. So the length returned by strlen is less than
the correct one.
See Bug #35412 for a similar situation (there might be more).
In that cases I use mb_strlen($str, 'ASCII') but it would be nice to have
a function called bytecount or something like that.
Maybe there are already plans for this in PHP6 with the new unicode thing.


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Not developer issue:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36024&r=support
Expected behavior:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36024&r=notwrong
Not enough info:              
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Submitted twice:              
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register_globals:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36024&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36024&r=php3
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Floating point limitations:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36024&r=float
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MySQL Configuration Error:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36024&r=mysqlcfg

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