Re: Binary string forward compatibility removal

On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 8:56 PM, François Laupretre <francois@php.net> wrote: > Hi, > > it was stated during the pre-7 discussions, that this flag would be kept > for possible future unicode-compliant developments. So, people needing > binary strings are still encouraged to use the flag, even if it is not used > in the current versions. > > Regards > > François > I don't remember any specific on-list discussion on this topic, but my general understanding is that at this point the unicode by default approach has sailed. We may see something like u"" literals in the future (iirc this was suggested during the UString discussion), but we quite certainly are not going to change the default interpretation of strings -- it would cause too much breakage. Nikita