id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
9663	is_serialized() should be renamed to might_be_serialized();	hakre	anonymous	"is_serialized() peeks into a string and 'tries' to find out if it is serialied (= encoded) data.

infact it looks for data being a string and then checks if it '''''might''''' be serialized data. for example, the string 'N;' is interpreted as serialized data. well, this can actually be just a string.

next to this the function is not aware of handling utf-8. it does not check wether or not the passed string is utf-8 encoded. then it uses regular expressions that are not utf-8 aware (and which can not, because WP is php 4.3 compatbile with has no such functionality with pcre)."	defect (bug)	closed	normal	2.9	Charset	2.7.1	normal	wontfix	has-patch	vladimir@…