Does php not support unicode?

php does not support unicode, because Unicode is a reliable way to represent all letters and symbols, and PHP can only support eight-bit binary encoded character sets.

The operating environment of this article: windows7 system, PHP7.1 version, DELL G3 computer

Doesn’t php support unicode?

Unicode is a reliable way to represent all letters and symbols.

PHP official documentation says: "A string string is composed of a series of characters, each character is equivalent to one byte. This means that PHP can only support 256 character sets,"

means that PHP can only support eight-bit binary encoded character sets. And Unicode is all of them.

charset=utf-8 This part indicates that UTF-8 character encoding is used, which is the abbreviation of 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format.

From this point of view, does it explain why PHP cannot support Unicode encoding? It may be possible, but it is just some strange characters.

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