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

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Nicolas Bérard-Nault wrote: > Permit me to give my 2 cents on that and share my small bit of experience > with PHP 6. > > First of all, I totally agree with you Antony. I'm currently working on > deploying a big codebase in PHP 6 (for those of you who didn't know, I'm the > GSoC student working on refactoring Jaws for PHP 6) and my head started to > ache when I began understanding all the complications of the unicode > implementation as it is right now. Basically, having that > unicode.semanticsPHP_INI switch just totally kills the fun because I > have to have a working > application if it is ON or OFF. Why? Just state that it only works when it is turned ON - I am pretty sure that that's the way we'll go. > Long story short, this forces me to > explicitly define each string as either binary or unicode, which doesn't > make any "PHP sense". It's actually the first time I'm forced to explicitly > specify a variable type in PHP and I'm not sure I'm the only one who's not > happy about this. I like the unicode support and really appreciate all the > work that's been done on it but I absolutely think it should be implemented > without that headache/pain in the ass switch that'll make transition even > tougher for everyone. That I agree with :) Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org