Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?
| From: | Lester Caine | Date: | Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:32:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants? | ||
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On 14/09/17 14:10, Michael Morris wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> UTF8 introduces a level of complexity and can be used used in many
>> places in PHP, but it does seem that there is no drive these days to
>> make the core a clean UTF8 environment. This should perhaps be addressed
>> again for PHP8?
>>
> *Cough*, *Cough*, PHP 6, *Cough*, *Cough*.
>
> Comedy aside, Full UTF functionality was planned for PHP 6 and ended up
> sinking the branch because it was way more complicated that anyone realized
> at first. Someone involved with the development at that time can speak to
> it more accurately - all I know is hearsay and conjecture.
My point exactly ...
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