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

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > 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. Just to state the obvious... I agree here. Derick