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

On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 19:22, Hans Henrik Bergan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.