RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap
| From: | David Zülke | Date: | Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:47:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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> +1 on unicode support. I think not having unicode support by default
> really hurts PHP in the enterprise where applications must almost always
> be internationalized. I know mbstring gets the job done, but it's
> really hard to evangelize PHP as a choice technology when you have to
> use an extension to do what Java and Perl do natively. I just sent an
> e-mail to the SOAP list on this subject on how strings are really not
> re-encoded to UTF-8-- so if you have a form that takes variables of any
> encoding and puts them through PEAR SOAP, they come out as ASCII (not
> good).
Very true, native unicode support would really make things way easier. This
has my vote :)
- David