Re: What "Unicode support" really means

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Until there is some agreement here I don't think that the next stage can be taken forward. I disagree here. Unicode support for identifiers (see below) is a very small part of what is required to actually support Unicode. See my initial mail about Unicode support, I think it would help to focus on the design first, before going down (or better said, up) to the user land details. > If the core is ASCII only, then PHP requires other solutions to handling > unicode material in databases ... that needs to be part of the roadmap. > > I will quite happily accept ASCII only core, but IS it the right way > forward? Or just another quick fix to something people see as too difficult? The core won't support ascii only, that's the whole point. But I only referred to Unicode names for identifiers (variables, contants, methods, classes or functions names). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org