Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

From: Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:33:57 +0000
Subject: Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
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On 6/14/07, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:
Jani Taskinen wrote: During Derick's talk about PHP 6 at PHP Vikinger, I started to wonder what exactly was the reasoning behind adding something like "unicode.semantics" option. Derick didn't remember, neither did I. Apparently it's another one of these "register_globals" or "magic_quotes_*" directives we'll remove in PHP 7? :D I mean, if PHP 6 is about unicode, why upgrade to PHP 6 and disable it? Just stay with PHP 5 then.. That's exactly why we need the toggle. We don't want to encourage people to stay with an older version. We have enough trouble getting people from 4 to 5 today, why build in an automatic excuse for people to stay with 5 when all development moves to 6? If all their PHP 5-based code works flawlessly in PHP 6, the adoption of PHP 6 will be quicker.
As a side note, we had the same thoughts about php5, it did not work. --Pierre

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