Re: Unicode Implementation
| From: | Ilia Alshanetsky | Date: | Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:38:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Unicode Implementation | ||
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George Schlossnagle wrote:
>> What is wrong with PHP 5.1? People don't *have* to upgrade to the
>> unicode enabled PHP if they don't want to. And it would probably be
>> "nice" to have that mode for some users, but should that be over our own
>> back with multiple implementations of everything?
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> Are you suggesting that people who don't want unicode should stick with
> 5.1 for perpetuity?
Assuming that 5.1 would be actively maintained and not just for bug
fixes, I'd say that is a viable approach. There are plenty of sites that
have no use for Unicode as nice as it may be, and much rather retain
performance over useless (for them) functionality.
Ilia