[TYPO3-dev] String Handling in Extensions

[Steffen Kamper]

"Ries van Twisk" <typo3 at rvt.dds.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.139617.1176404290.21067.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> hey Steffen,
>
> as soon as you work with other locales that can be multi-byte
> then you should use these functions.
> This is also true for values that come from posts/get's
> when the website was set to multu-byte like utf-8.
>
> Ries
>

Hi Ries,

you're right. So if the extension should work with all multibyte langs. it 
should only use this functions.
But i've not seen them used in extionsions before. Does this means an ext 
like tt_news gets in trouble on a chinese page ?

vg  Steffen

> On Apr 12, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Steffen Kamper wrote:
>
>>
>> "Ingo Renner" <typo3 at ingo-renner.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> news:mailman.1.1176402192.13172.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
>>> Steffen Kamper wrote:
>>>
>>>> I looked in the core for an universal method, but didn't found a 
>>>> strict
>>>> rule.
>>>> How should this be done ? mb-functions are not available on all 
>>>> systems,
>>>> and there is a flag in installtool, iconv also, ...
>>>
>>> AFAIR there're some methods in csConv ...
>>>
>>> Ingo
>>
>> Hi Ingo,
>>
>> good hint, ty  - i didn't realized before.
>> There are functions in t3lib_cs like
>> substr
>> strlen
>> crop
>> etc.
>>
>> So every input string should be handled with tis methods to be sure.
>> Additional question: Are the form values has to be handled same way ?
>>
>> vg Steffen
>>
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