Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
| From: | Antony Dovgal | Date: | Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:42:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? | ||
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On 06.07.2007 15:32, Richard Quadling wrote:
If Unicode had been an extension (one of those that are part of the core and cannot be disabled) with its own classes/exceptions/functions/etc, then everyone would have been happy.Moreover, we do have such an extension, it's called "mbstring" and you can use it even in PHP4. But the point is that it's _just an extension_, hence the Unicode support is far far from full.
Unicode is a great idea, but I don't use unicode at the moment, but I'd still like to have PHP6 when it is officially released without having to do major work to make my code compliant AND without having to turn Unicode off.If you don't need Unicode, you don't need PHP6. It's that simple.
For those that need it, then they can code for it. For those that don't they still get all the other improvements in PHP6 and without the reported speed issues as they are not using the extension. This seems like a winner to me.-- Wbr, Antony Dovgal