Posted by Dana Cartwright on 07/21/05 15:10

<lkrubner@geocities.com> wrote in message
news:1121930994.203756.257720@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> what does PHP think a character is?
> Does PHP understand what a multi-byte character is?

The user's manual is your friend here...

"In PHP, a character is the same as a byte, that is, there are exactly 256
different characters possible. This also implies that PHP has no native
support of Unicode. See utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() for some Unicode
support."

quoted from

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

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