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

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Jeremy Privett wrote: > > But, let's look at this situation from another angle. What if > > unicode.semantics becomes the next magic_quotes or safe_mode, and is > > ALWAYS OFF in 95%+ of PHP installations? All of the work you did to add > > unicode support was WASTED on this presumption that if you don't have > > BC, no one's going to use it. Whereas the opposite is clearly true, in > > this case. If you have BC, it'll get used simply because it works with > > old code, but the main thing that changed about the language will never > > be touched. > > 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. I do, because that will end up in less hosts running with real unicode support. They can always tell their clients "we have php 6" - while it is in fact just the crippled non-unicode version of it. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org