Re: svn: /php/php-src/trunk/ NEWS ext/standard/html.c ext/standard/tests/strings/bug44703.phpt
ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_basic1.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_basic2.phpt
ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_variation1.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/htmlentities.phpt php.ini-development
php.ini-production
| From: | Lukas Kahwe Smith | Date: | Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:53:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: svn: /php/php-src/trunk/ NEWS ext/standard/html.c ext/standard/tests/strings/bug44703.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_basic1.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_basic2.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_variation1.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/htmlentities.phpt php.ini-development php.ini-production |
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On 26.03.2010, at 13:39, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 18:08 +0000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>> rasmus Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:08:06 +0000
>>
>> Revision:
>> http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=296685
>>
>> Log:
>> Switch default_charset, if not specified, from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
>> I have been wanting to make this change for years, but there is a small
>> chance of BC issues, so it shouldn't go into a minor release.
>
> I in "my world" this isn't just a small chance of a break. Over here
> every application has to deal with non-ASCII characters (äöüßÄÖÜ). Many
> "average" applications don't set the encoding, most don't care.
>
> With the environments using more and more Utf-8 (operating system
> environments, editor defaults, ...) the change is good but it is no
> small thing but will cause "trouble" for many users having iso-8859-1
> texts in their database and getting broken pages after the upgrade and
> we should advise users to mind their encodings!
>
> Fixing applications is easy, getting the knowledge to our users is hard.
I had the same feeling when Rasmus mentioned his change. I think its a good chance, but I am not
sure if we should include it in a 5.4 if that is the version name for the next release.
regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org