Re: [RFC] UString

On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 07:49 -0700, Sara Golemon wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2014, at 0:06, Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org> wrote: > > > > Morning internalz, > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ustring > > > > This is the result of work done by a few of us, we won't be opening any > > vote in a fortnight. We have a long time before 7, there is no rush > > whatever. > > > > The backend abstraction seems overengineered to me. It could also lead to inconsistencies in > behavior if ICU and Windows implement something in subtly different ways. > > Since we're linking ICU for the rest of the intl extension anyway, it seems to me like we > should just focus on it as an ICU wrapper. > > Also, I'd peopose a minor ammendment to this RFC that other intl classes be extended to > support taking UString instances as arguments (avoiding the implicit conversion to UTF8). That work > doesn't have to gate adoption of the base implementation, it'd just be useful to decide at > the same time if we want to do so. > > -Sara Actually I agree, I just needed a few people to say WTF. Backend gone, we are gonna use ICU, rfc/ext updated. INTL is still an open question yeah, preference noted. Cheers Joe