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

Makoto Tozawa wrote: > Jani Taskinen wrote: > >> Show me one such person please. One that does this using PHP. :) >> One that really NEEDS this to be possible.. > > > It's impossible to find one as PHP doesn't support it today. > > Think of defining a class which encapsulates a database table, and the > table name and column names are in native languages. If PHP restricts > the class and function names to ascii characters, programmers need to > maintain the mapping from the table name to the class name, and the > column name to the set/get function name. Can you guess how painfull > it would be? > Think of a code generator which generates classes from database tables. > What kind of class/function names the code generator could automatically > generate if the programming language restricts the identifiers to ascii > characters? Same goes for SOAP, COM and Java integration. All of these potentially need to map to unicode identifiers and trying to work around this would be annoying. -Rasmus