Clarify the opening sentence of the string type page #5431
Description
Affected page
https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
Current issue
I would like to suggest simplifying the opening sentence of the string type page.
The current wording uses “characters”, but that term can be ambiguous in text processing. It may refer to different units depending on context, so it may not be the best term for introducing PHP strings.
The phrase “256-character set” is also confusing. PHP strings are described later on the same page in terms of bytes, and the current wording may suggest a specific 8-bit character set rather than a byte-oriented string model.
Suggested improvement
A string in PHP is a sequence of bytes with an associated length.
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