Re: What "Unicode support" really means

Hi Pierre, On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > 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). Urgh, no. Please not. This will without a doubt lead people to code in e.g. raw Chinese/other asiatic languages or kyrillic, and so other people without a Chinese keyboard will not be able to adapt or modify the code as they cannot type the variable names. Marco