Posted by working_boy on 08/14/07 11:41

On Aug 14, 12:25 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > So, those anybody have any ideas how these problems can be solved more
> > elegantly?
>
> > Thx.
>
> Perhaps donate some of your work to the opensource projects? I suspect
> phpmailer would appreciate your efforts, for instance.
>


So, in your opinion the only solution is to analyze php code and try
to figure out what was the author intentions? To analyze for example
is strlen supposed to return number of bytes or number of characters?
If it is supposed to return number of bytes - then leave it as is,
otherwise rename it in mb_strlen?

This is major undertaking for someone not familiar with inner working
of this class. Also I am not sure that phpmailer would really
appreciate this. MB is just an extension and there is possibility that
it is not even installed on all shared hosting servers. Also, for most
westerners iso-8859-1 is good enough, and multi-byte functions are
slower then ordinary functions. PHP6 is around the corner and I am not
really sure how many people would benefit from this. If I decide add
full multi-byte support to phpmailer I will released it, but I can not
promise that it will be in synch with current version of original
phpmailer class.

And again, this is not about phpmailer class. I am interested in other
people opinions and experiences with multi byte string functions and
third party libraries and what is the best thing to do.

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