Re: Re: Turkish/Azeri locale support

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 14:14, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > On 19 April 2010 11:58, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: >> As at least some of you would already be aware, there's a >> long-standing issue with using PHP in a Turkish or Azeri locale, >> namely that case-insensitive lookups within the Zend engine (method >> names, for example) fail on lookups involving upper-case I characters, >> since lower-case I in those languages is ı instead of i (note the lack >> of a dot). > > Well, I'm going to assume that people have had whatever say they were > going to. It seems that we have three options, so let's put it to a > vote. > > (To be completely clear, this is purely for trunk. This certainly > isn't a candidate for backporting to 5.3.) > > 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.) +1 > 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. There is no way this can happen. It will break massive amount of code and will cause major headaches for people using __call(). -Hannes