Re: Re: bug in 2nd-highest-upvoted mb_check_encoding() comment code

Hans Henrik Bergan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.php.documentation.general
Message-ID <CAJmy8YHt=S3r6ApUk13VwcD6So2srHDcG2YxAW3iNU1gqpreYw@mail.gmail.com>
@Peter Cowburn
PS it would appear that you (accidentally?) deleted every single comment,
instead of just comment 95289


> > the comment
> > https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-check-encoding.php#95289 is
> the
> > 2nd-highest upvoted comment, and makes some dubious claims, but the code
> > provided is bugged and should not be used,
> > as a specific example it incorrectly validates "\xC0\x81"  , which is
> > illegal  in UTF8 (quote RFC3629: The octet values C0, C1, F5 to FF never
> > appear - ref https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3629 )
> >
> > so.. can we at least get an editor's note that the code is bugged,
> > incorrectly validates "\xC0\x81", and should not be used?
> Instead of doing this, I have deleted the referenced note.
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