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PHP’s trim() function, by default, only strips a limited set of ASCII whitespace characters, and mb_trim(), introduced in PHP 8.4, does not behave identically to JavaScript’s String.prototype.trim().

This PR implements js_trim(), a PHP function that replicates JavaScript’s String.prototype.trim() behavior.

It works by defining a set of $js_trimmables characters, which are passed to mb_trim() with UTF-8 encoding.

In addition, this PR adds a polyfill for mb_trim() in compat.php to support PHP versions below 8.4 with unit tests for both js_trim() and mb_trim()

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63804


This Pull Request is for code review only. Please keep all other discussion in the Trac ticket. Do not merge this Pull Request. See GitHub Pull Requests for Code Review in the Core Handbook for more details.

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@dmsnell dmsnell requested review from dmsnell and removed request for dmsnell August 31, 2025 05:29
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