Re: Unicode (was What's up with Quercus?)

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Tom Samplonius <tom@samplonius.org> wrote: > > > > With the loss of Unicode (which now lacks even an implementation > > plan) > ... > > How has Unicode been lost? There is tons of encoding stuff in PHP. As of > 5.3, you can use declare() to set the encoding for scripts. There is the > mb_* stuff for multibyte support. Obviously, saying PHP has "no Unicode" as > others have said, is wrong. There is definitely some Unicode in PHP. > > Unicode (which itself is changing), will probably never be "done", and > therefore never done in PHP. But I've worked on multilingual UTF8 web apps > in PHP, and I never lacked for support. Maybe sorting of Unicode strings? > And I guess that some of the PHP string functions can be confused on some > mb strings. > > > http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-what-happened-to-unicode-and-php-6 Tyrael