Re: [PHP-I18N] Can I use strings with some unicode characters as array keys?

> PHP manual says that one should only use strings or integers as keys.
> Also  I know that PHP doesn't speak unicode yet.

Depending on what you mean by speaking unicode; the mbstring extension
has worked well for everything I've ever needed to do with unicode, and
supports all the various unicode character sets.

> So - I was just wondering - when unicode characteres aare used in
> array key - does PHP strips them or affects them in any way?

I believe that string array keys are treated as binary strings, and
never modified. I couldn't find you a source, but I've always worked on
this assumption and never hit a problem. UTF-8 keys definitely work fine
(*); I'm also not aware of any max length the keys can have (meaning you
shouldn't have to worry about a multi-byte character getting truncated
in the middle).

Darren

*: Well, to fully qualify that, I may only ever have tried with
Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and European languages :-)

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