Re: Unicode progress [Was: unicode.semantics ad infinitum]

Hi Edward,

As I a PHP developer on Windows, I pay very close attention to development work on PHP and regularly test my code against PHP 5.3, hand-built from the CVS. Nearly all of the PECL extensions are broken on Windows for PHP 6. The http extension has a very nasty problem: its fatal error appears to loop nearly ad infinitum. This makes compiling snaps locally very difficult--I've given up. Why is the log file 4.4 MB long?

Because nobody's been trying to compile snaps against PHP 6? Basically most extension developers decided to stay with 5_3 for now and haven't migrated their code to work with Unicode on. I would hope, though, that if PHP 6 is Unicode-only there might be more enthusiasm for adapting code to work with it.

Also, as stands it appears most non-trivial applications are fairly broken. Those issues need to be resolved first, before we toss Unicode onto the pile.

I think the test script and ZE problems should be resolved first... plus I just discovered that my php.ini isn't being found when I run commandline tests (e.g. php -r "var_dump(strcasecmp());" doesn't throw an error unless I explicitly set error_reporting from the commandline, despite having E_ALL|E_STRICT in the INI). These are basic things, nobody can really go much further until they're fixed. So I agree with you - it's far too soon for apps testing at this stage. - Steph