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

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:48:28 -0700, Andrei Zmievski <andrei@gravitonic.com> wrote: > And I think that we shouldn't, since it removes a big incentive for > people to move to PHP 6. I would be inclined to agree as well. > > Really, we need to get folks to use Unicode natively as much as > possible. It is the way of the future, and not some "obscure > feature", as some here have suggested. Quite right. In fact those whom choose to /not/ implement it will be missing a large portion of the internet. Really, great strides have been taken in almost every other area; DNS, HTTPd, SMTP, IMAP, etc... to accommodate UTF. In fact, at the current rate of development/adoption it seems unlikely that applications will build/run /without/ UTF support. So why wouldn't/shouldn't PHP also support it by default. In short; I quite agree, UTF is not some novel addition - but rather; a necessary feature. > This kind of attitude is > precisely why we've had and continue to have such an > internationalization mess when it comes to building applications. > > -Andrei > > > On Jul 6, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Antony Dovgal wrote: > >> On 06.07.2007 20:44, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >>>> You don't by a Porsche if you need a taxi, why would you install >>>> PHP6 if you don't need Unicode? >>> Namespaces ;) >> This reason is only valid if we don't backport such things from >> PHP6 to PHP5 (5.3, 5.5 or whatever it would be), which I think we >> should do. >> >> -- >> Wbr, Antony Dovgal >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// Service provided by hitOmeter.NET internet messaging! .