RE: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:51:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex | ||
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Functions would work properly with Unicode, but you would explicitly
create Unicode strings e.g. u"foobar". This is not uncommon practice and
many other languages actually go down this route incl. Python and
various versions of C++ frameworks.
Andi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@php.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:07 AM
> To: Stas Malyshev
> Cc: Lukas Kahwe Smith; Andi Gutmans; Ilia Alshanetsky;
> jani.taskinen@iki.fi; internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>
> > > that would actually benefit quite a bit from unicode
> support, but I
> > > guess you are talking about porting with unicode==off, right?
> >
> > unicode=off doesn't mean no unicode support, btw.
>
> Of course that's what it means, as none of the string
> functions work properly with unicode if you turn it off. And
> that's just the whole selling point of Unicode support.
>
> Derick
>