Posted by MW on 11/18/07 00:54

Problem solved with a strange workaround - I changed the assignment line
to $ef['title'].=$data. For some reason the assignment was happening in
two steps - the first step would transfer the part before the 'é' and
the second would transfer the rest. By adding the concatenate operator I
bypassed the issue.

MW

Dikkie Dik wrote:
>>> What limitations? Strings can be "absurd" long.
>> By limitations I mean that the charset is 8-bit, only 256 unique chars.
>> If my string has an character like the french accent "e", it can lead to
>> problems.
>
> Well, yes, but string handling should be binary-safe in recent versions
> of PHP. I use utf-8 a lot, and I never ran into that kind of problems.
> The only thing I have to take care of is the fact that some characters
> are represented by more than one "character".
>
>>> If you think the assignment is the problem, have you tried what
>>> $ef['title'] is directly before and after the assignment?
>> $ef['title'] is empty before the assignment, and "é to the White House"
>> after assignment. The funny part is that if I echo both variables right
>> below the line where the assignment occurs, $data is "Attaché to the
>> White House" and $ef['title'] is "é to the White House"
>
>
> That is really strange. I never encountered anything like it. Does it
> help (as an ugly workaround) to make it a reference assignment?
> Like: $ef['title'] &= $data;
>
> If so, it might help to "clone"-assign it to a non-array (local)
> variable first and then "reference"-assign that that local variable to
> the $ef['title']
>
> Just curious...

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