Re: PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > What do you mean? Why wouldn't it be portable? > > Well, for one thing code written to use unicode identifiers will > immediately be limited to running on PHP 6 installs. While code using > ASCII identifier with standard "compat" layer could run just fine. I don't see why this is a problem... > Another reason to only allow ASCII is that now code can be read by > anyone rather then just the people who are familiar with the particular > language user. Heck, some editors do not even allow utf-8 or properly > render some high-ascii chars making those scripts difficult if not > impossible to edit. Again, I don't see why this support would be a problem for *you*... if other people want to use it, let them. It doesn't hurt anybody who really doesn't use it. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org