Talk in English - US at Longhorn PHP 2025
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Hill Country A
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/6e0f8
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The farmer emoji (👩🏾🌾) is a bit of a mystery.
PHP's strlen function says that its length is 15. mb_strlen gives a length of 4 (depending on how PHP is configured). The grapheme_strlen function returns a length of 1.
Why do all these functions disagree? And there's just one emoji there...shouldn't they all have the same length: 1?
To understand this madness, you need to understand a little about Unicode. Many developers, myself included, get intimidated by Unicode. What's "UTF-8"? What's a "code point"? What does "U+1F937" mean?
In this talk, I'll try to answer these questions so that the next time someone gets confused by the length of the farmer emoji, you can help.
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