On 3/5/08 7:25 PM, "John Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 2008/3/5 Cliff Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Is there a downside to using utf-8?
> 
> No, but there are issues with some string functions.  In php4/5
> functions like substr() operate on bytes, and may break UTF-8 strings
> that contain multibyte characters.  I'd search your code for things
> like "substr" and "pos", and make sure they are not operating on
> userdata in an unsafe way.
> 
> see:
> http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/utf-8

Doesn't the multibyte string extension overload these functions?


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