Re: [PHP-I18N] is_string()

> I find that confusing too. Given the commit log, it is even more
> confusing:
>
> - Updated is_string():
>    If Unicode semantics is turned on, return "true" for Unicode  
> strings
>    only. If Unicode semantics is turned off, return "true" for native
>    strings only.
>
> It makes is_string basically useless, I can imagine two solutions:
>
> - keep it and always returns true (unicode and binary strings are
>   strings anyway)

You have a good point here. is_string() should treat both types as  
"string" type.

> - deprecate it in php 6.0, it will still returns true. At least
>   people will know that they should use the new functions

Ideally we'd have is_text() that would return true for both and  
deprecate is_string(), but that seems like a big change for not a  
whole lot of pay-off.

-Andrei