Re: [RFC] Unicode Escape Syntax
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:30:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Unicode Escape Syntax | ||
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> If we decide to support non-utf-8 encoding at compile time then we could extend
> the syntax a bit to allow the encoding to be specified, eg:
>
> \U{utf-8: arabic letter alef}
>
> \U{iso-8859-6: arabic letter alef}
>
God, that's such a PHP thing to do. And not in a good way...
I get the argument against this RFC on the grounds that it's a
half-measure, but on the other hand, we all know what happened to our
full-measure solution. And that bit of history is why I actually like
this as a small, simple, and practical step forward. That's a very
PHP thing to do, in a good way.
-Sara