Tickets :: Comment on [#7959] Patch to make File_PDF work with mbstring.func

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Comment	>> The mbstring extension allows working with multi-byte string > >> encodings. Pragmatically, using mbstring.func_overloading is the best > >> way to develop a UTF-8 application in PHP. > > > > Wrong, it's an unreliable hack. > > > >> When this is not desired is when you are working with binary files or > >> streams. Usually in this case you want to work with bytes and not > >> characters. The attached patch explicitly uses bytes (the '8bit' > >> encoding) for string calculations in a binary context if mbstring > >> function overloading is enabled. > > > > That's exactly one of the reasons why you shouldn't use overloading. > Undesired side-effects, and yet more hacks to work around stuff being > broken by the hack called overloading.
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