Re: Removal of unicode_semantics

> We've discussed this a few times in the past and it's time to make a > final decision about its removal. > > I think most people have agreed that this is the way forward but no > one has produced a patch. I have a student working on unicode > conversion for the Google Summer of Code and this would help make it > simpler. unicode_semantics=on breaks backwards compatibility in scripts that have implemented multiple character set support in current PHP setups. If setting is removed, instead of maintaining at least some bits of backwards compatibility and doing some additional work, you force massive code rewrites in scripts that depend on working charset support and more work for people, who use interpreter. Every time somebody proposes removal of this setting, they claim that majority agreed on it when there is no agreement on anything. People only defended own positions and we had other flame about unicode_semantics. -- Tomas