Re: Re: PHP Unicode support design document

Yeah, print/echo was just a way of describing the underlying output stuff. It wasn't meant to be taken literally. -Rasmus Andi Gutmans wrote: > We need to automatically convert the output as internally we will be > storing UTF-16 which is not what you want to send to the user. The SAPI > output mechanism does the conversion, I don't think it's print & echo. > It will actually save people a lot of headache that this is done > automatically. > As far as files are concerned, the default is also to convert to the INI > encoding (forgot which INI parameter), but we will supply streams which > allow you to control the in/out encoding of specific files. > > So basically, I think we need to update the doc as I am pretty sure we > didn't change print/echo but the underlying input/output mechanisms. > > Andi > > > At 02:54 PM 8/10/2005 +0400, Antony Dovgal wrote: > >> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:45:27 +0200 >> "Ron Korving" <r.korving@xit.nl> wrote: >> >> > This looks very promising, I'm impressed by the work you guys have >> done (big >> > thumbs up). >> > >> > There are a few issues/questions I have after reading your document: >> > >> > >> > "Therefore, command such as 'print' and 'echo' automatically >> > convert >> their >> > arguments to the specified encoding. No automatic output encoding is >> > performed for anything else." >> >> That's actually something I wanted to ask about too. >> >> Do we really need such kind of magic? >> >> I think it may be pretty confusing when after echo'ing or print'ing a >> variable >> you can see one output, but after writing the very same variable into >> a file >> you can see something completely different. >> >> IMO it's similar to what we have with __toString() ATM. >> Yes, it's documented, but it's *still* confusing that there is some magic >> involved in one case and there is no magic in an other, almost similar >> case. >> >> -- >> Wbr, >> Antony Dovgal >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >