On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 10:43 AM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
wrote:
> recently, there was a bug report regarding declare(encoding)[1]. I've
> checked that, and found that the current implementation of
> declare(encoding) doesn't make sense regarding "block mode", since this
> is completely ignored; instead, each (allowed) declare(encoding) works
> from where it is written till the next declare(encoding) (well, probably
> more or less).
>
> Since I consider switching the character encoding in the middle of a
> file not reasonable (and it might be hard to properly implement support
> for that), I suggest to disallow block mode for declare(encoding) as of
> PHP 8.3. A respective PR is available[2].
>
>
I think I can imagine scenarios where switching encodings within a file
would.... work? Especially for ASCII transparent encodings... That said,
if you're currently depending on multiple encodings in a single file then
you probably deserve whatever you get.
+1
-Sara
