Re: ctype_print returns false for British Pound symbol (and non-ASCII symbols)

Hi!

> So the ctype functions are barely of of any use for characters beyond the
> ASCII range?
>
> Is that by design, or due to technical limitations? Either way, it should
> be clearly stated in the PHP documentation.

PHP is not a Unicode language yet. If you think it's a problem you're 
welcome to port ext/unicode stuff from PHP 6 branch. ext/intl does a lot 
of string stuff (collations, etc.) but not character stuff.

> And why does ctype_print return true for the British Pound symbol for
> some people (including my hosting company's server) but false for others?
> (Someone on php.general confirmed this strange disparity.)

Probably different encodings or different locale databases.
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