Re: [RFC] Unicode Escape Syntax

> On 25 Nov 2014, at 08:33, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > > May be I misunderstood something, but why to introduce unicode escapes if PHP engine > doesn't support Unicode. We don't have Unicode strings which are made of codepoints rather than bytes, sure. But we do usually treat these strings as UTF-8. The idea of doing this in a language without Unicode strings isn't new, C/C++ have the u8"" syntax for making UTF-8 strings. > Always converting such escapes into UTF-8 encoding, doesn't make any sense for people who > use other encodings for output, databases, etc. If you're using other encodings, why do you want to use a Unicode codepoints? Most Unicode codepoints will not supported by another character set. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/