Re: PHP 6
| From: | Moriyoshi Koizumi | Date: | Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:38:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 6 | ||
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On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> - in the meanwhile, start working on patching in back Unicode support,
> but in small steps. Exactly which things, and how we'd have to find
> out. But I do think it needs to be a *core* language feature, and not
> simply solved by extensions. We also need to make sure everybody
> understands that Unicode isn't just about encodings, or charsets and
> that thre are differences between that. Education is going to be
> important (and adding Unicode back in small bits would certainly help
> there).
Unicode isn't just about a coded character set, but a whole lot of
specifications that are essential in handling various kinds of texts
within an application. But, I don't really think it reinforces the
reason Unicode functionality needs to be part of core language.
Moriyoshi