@DASPRiD mbstring are 5-10x faster than iconv.

Then why don't you use Zend\Stdlib\StringUtils::getWrapper(), it will automatically select the available wrapper for you. This would reduce duplicate code, right?

When Console was created a year ago, StringUtils wasn't in place. I'll take a look. Thanks for the hint.

@DASPRiD done.

@weierophinney @DASPRiD I've got a pickle here.

The original ("ambitious") implementation of Console::writeLine() for zf2 was trying to mitigate empty lines, when the string length matched window length. This means, that doing $console->writeLine(str_repeat('#', 80)) in 80x25 console window would result in a single line of ##### and carret on the following line (while most other frameworks would produce a line of #### followed by an empty line and then the carret).

The problem is that people also use writeLine() for writing multi-line strings. This increases the complexity of the above algorithm. I'd have to check the length of the longest line (or the last line) of input before deciding to output PHP_EOL or not.

As much as I like my original idea I believe the benefits do not outweight the cost needed to work around the above problem. In case someone wanted to do $console->writeLine(file_get_contents('somehugefile.txt'); the performance penality could be severe.

I think the best option here is to remove the feature of matching input with console width and instead implement the standard writeLine implementation that 99% other frameworks provide: echo $input . PHP_EOL;.

Comments ?

@Thinkscape I'm in agreement. Does that need to be done prior to merging this?