Re: Unicode support with UString abstraction layer

I would suggest changing the terminology here. A "string" is quite simply an array of bytes, with no intrinsic meaning or encoding. This "UString" is something quite different, and giving it a similar name might cause confusion. I'd suggest calling it a "text" type. Having distinct "string" and "text" types would aid in reminding people that strings are not, in fact, text, a fact which it can be difficult to grasp. But perhaps that makes sense only to me. On 31/08/12 13:20, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:

My modest proposal to provide Unicode support to PHP without the need to

rewrite the whole engine and its libraries introducing the UString abstraction layer as a regular class, an with minimal support from the core engine. Basically, the UString class hides the internal implementation of the Unicode strings and allows to experiment with several solutions (UTF-8, UCS-2, UCS-4, ...).