RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Turkish/Azeri locale support

> -----Original Message----- > From: adam@adamharvey.name [mailto:adam@adamharvey.name] On Behalf > Of Adam Harvey > Sent: 04 May 2010 13:15 > The options are: > > 1. Apply Tomas's patch to make case-insensitive lookups > locale-ignorant. Pros: fixes immediate problem. Cons: breaks BC for > case-insensitive function/method name lookups for high-bit > characters > in single-byte encodings. (Not that we've ever advertised or > documented that.) > > 2. Make function/method names case-sensitive, per Stan's e-mail. > Pros: > fixes problem; brings PHP into line with most other languages; extra > consistency with variables; possible performance improvement. Cons: > BC > break from current documented behaviour. > > 3. Do nothing. Pros: no BC breaks of any kind. Cons: continues to > annoy Turkish and Azeri developers and those developing for those > locales. Low karma here, too, but for what it's worth I'm for option 2. (I can never remember what's case sensitive and what's not, so I always write code that would work either way anyway!) Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Developer, Libraries and Learning Innovation, Leeds Metropolitan University, C507, Civic Quarter Campus, Woodhouse Lane, LEEDS,  LS1 3HE,  United Kingdom Email: m.ford@leedsmet.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 812 4730 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm