New Unicode component

By ParisLiakos on 11 May 2013

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Introduced in branch:

8.x

Description:

As of Drupal 8, most of unicode.inc functionality has been transferred to a Unicode component.
While most procedural wrappers have not be removed, they should be considered deprecated, if you want your code to be unit-testable.

Drupal 7	Drupal 8
Functions
`unicode_check()`	Unicode::check()
Constants
`PREG_CLASS_UNICODE_WORD_BOUNDARY`	Unicode::PREG_CLASS_WORD_BOUNDARY
`UNICODE_SINGLEBYTE`	Unicode::STATUS_SINGLEBYTE
`UNICODE_MULTIBYTE`	Unicode::STATUS_MULTIBYTE
`UNICODE_ERROR`	Unicode::STATUS_ERROR
Global variables
`global $multibyte`	Unicode::getStatus() \| Unicode::setStatus($status)
Functionalities
`drupal_convert_to_utf8()`	Unicode::convertToUtf8()
`drupal_truncate_bytes()`	Unicode::truncateBytes()
`truncate_utf8()`	Unicode::truncate()
`mime_header_encode()`	Unicode::mimeHeaderEncode()
`mime_header_decode()`	Unicode::mimeHeaderDecode()
`drupal_strlen()`	Unicode::strlen()
`drupal_strtoupper()`	Unicode::strtoupper()
`drupal_strtolower()`	Unicode::strtolower()
`drupal_ucfirst()`	Unicode::ucfirst()
`drupal_substr()`	Unicode::substr()
`drupal_validate_utf8()`	Unicode::validateUtf8()
`decode_entities()`	String::decodeEntities()

Impacts:

Module developers

Updates Done (doc team, etc.)

Online documentation:

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Comments

Unicode Deprecated Functions

amarphule commented 22 April 2019 at 16:27

D7	D8 Deprecated	Use
...	Unicode::setStatus	mb_setStatus()
drupal_strlen()	Unicode::strlen	mb_strlen()
...	Unicode::strpos	mb_strpos()
drupal_strtolower()	Unicode::strtolower	mb_strtolower()
drupal_strtoupper()	Unicode::strtoupper	mb_strtoupper()
drupal_substr()	Unicode::substr	mb_substr()