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

Hi Jani, On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 16:53 +0300, 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. The reason was to "keep BC" > 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.. - The ini Setting changes the behaviour of the code in a quite drastic way. This is even worse then magic_quotes which could be fixed by using some prepending file removing/adding slashes depending on the setting. - The UG(unicode) checks in the code make maintenance way harder. - This feature doesn't bring BC - there will still be enough BC breaks. - I guess we're adding a few thousand UG(unicode) checks during each request which certainly cost a bit performance Conclusion: Let's remove that damn setting. johannes