Re: Re: [php6] Unicode support, options?
| From: | Alexey Zakhlestin | Date: | Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:33:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [php6] Unicode support, options? | ||
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On Mar 14, 2014 3:20 PM, "Nikita Popov" <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nothing is wrong with it, PCRE has very good support for UTF-8 (including
> character properties and extended grapheme clusters). Can we just
deprecate
> mb_ereg? It seems totally useless and just confuses people. If you want to
> match regular expressions on non-UTF-8 just do a conversion beforehand (or
> use a sane encoding right away, you know).
Several years ago mb_ereg was slightly faster than pcre. It could have
changed since then