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

On Mon, July 9, 2007 3:07 am, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: >>>>> Unicode code points can be defined with \u, but PHP6 breaks >>>>> existing octal and hex escape sequences. >>> >>> I don't understand what this means... >> >> I think I know... >> >> I have code like this, somewhere: >> >> if (preg_match("|[\xF0-\xFF]|", $data)){ >> $data = un_microsuck($data); >> } >> >> un_microsuck() basically detects and converts any of the goof-ball >> extended ASCII from MS products (Word, Outlook, etc) to an HTML >> equivalent character. >> >> But now \xF0 isn't going to be ASCII 128 anymore, is it? > > \xF0 never was ASCII. ASCII (ISO-646) is 7bit character set. \xF0 is > decimal 240. It is 8bit. Don't tell me. Tell Microsoft. Cuz I sure as heck get a LOT of input data >> \x7f and I have to do something reasonable with it... And I did say "extended ASCII" in the other paragraph, after all... >> Or maybe \xF0 will "work" but the octal \360 won't? > > Are you sure that you can't do that by setting > unicode.something_encoding > to iso-8859-1 or windows-1252? I dunno. Doesn't really matter if I can't set those in .htaccess, that's for sure. [joke type="semi"] All this working going into Unicode, and nobody is pushing to replace (CR|CRLF|LF) with a new Unicode all-platform newline character? [/joke] -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?