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

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Sorry to interject, but just a quick slightly off topic note. > > In your earlier e-mail you've said that > > ----------------- > > I actually don't have a problem with 95% of PHP 6 installations turning > off Unicode support and this being the default setting for ISP's. > > Full Unicode support in an application is a big commitment and it will > take quite a bit of work. I just don't think that many people will > invest the time and effort into doing this, but at the same time there > will be large applications and services that have full control over > their server settings that will make use of it. Think Flickr, Yahoo, > Facebook, etc. > > ----------------- > > Since 95% of installations will not be using PHP6 (php6 without unicode > is pretty much a slower version php5) for whatever reason, > we need a common version for the other 95%. I think it is inevitable > that there will be 2 continually developed versions of PHP out there, > one for people who need unicode support in the way that is envisioned by > PHP6 and one for people who don't need it. Well, PHP is going to evolve and get more features and performance enhancements. Those are all going to go into PHP 6 and above. People stuck on PHP 5 won't see any of these, so I don't see PHP 6 without unicode as just a slower version of PHP 5. Namespaces and some of the other PHP 6 planned features are probably quite interesting to a number of people some of whom may not be interested in Unicode. -Rasmus