Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:56:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? | ||
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Seems to me...
Both need to be done.
Do both, or pick one if you can't do both, and somebody else will do
the other. That's how FLOSS works. :-)
On Wed, July 11, 2007 12:33 am, Evert | Rooftop wrote:
> One final question..
>
> should I assume while converting code "unicode.semantics" is on or
> off?
>
> If its on I would be making sure everything is properly casted to
> binary
> strings where this is needed, if it's off the focus would be on making
> sure the application runs on both PHP5 and PHP6..
>
> What makes the most sense here? I would personally say I would try it
> assuming its off, as this is the most likely for the development teams
> to target for ..
>
> Evert
>
> Andi Gutmans wrote:
>> I think the sooner the better as it's valuable information for the
>> dev
>> team.
>> It'd probably be a good idea to have a Wiki where we can document
>> issues
>> that/common use-cases which are encountered.
>> Maybe we should have a Wiki on one of the php.net servers for such
>> purposes?
>> Andi
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Evert | Rooftop [mailto:evert@rooftopsolutions.nl]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:40 AM
>>> To: Andi Gutmans
>>> Cc: Antony Dovgal; Andrei Zmievski; Stas Malyshev;
>>> internals@lists.php.net
>>> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics"
>>> in PHP 6?
>>>
>>> Andi Gutmans wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I really think we need to do for this release, which
>>>>
>>> we haven't
>>>
>>>> been good at doing in the past, is build a PHP Compatibility Team
>>>> which tries to port many applications to PHP 6 and finds
>>>>
>>> the issues in
>>>
>>>> doing this port (both with unicode_semantics=on/off). We can then
>>>> learn from this experience and have good documentation on how to
>>>> upgrade to both modes and in some cases, like we have done
>>>>
>>> in the past
>>>
>>>> 2-3 weeks, tweak PHP 6 to not break backwards compatibility. It is
>>>> possible in many cases.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'd volunteer for this. Does it help you guys to get started
>>> with this today, or should I be waiting till there's more
>>> agreement on some of this stuff..
>>>
>>> Evert
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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