I don't care about this as long as I can DISABLE it from
my PHP builds (and not be forced to link it with ICU).
--Jani
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
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
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