Today I updated my version of PHP to version 5.3.6 since I needed to update my PCRE. Did I have to? No. But while I had my hood open I figured why not knock them both out together. One of the main reasons is this very friendly error message:

this version of PCRE is not compiled with PCRE_UTF8 support at offset 0

The server wasn’t lying. When I did a PCRE check…

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