Req #9666 [NEW]: Why should PEAR be ISO8859-1 formatted?

From: bruno at lustosa dot net Operating system: Irrelevant Package version: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Why should PEAR be ISO8859-1 formatted? Description: ------------ At the coding standards page, more specifically, in the section about File Formats (http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.file.php), it states that scripts should be encoded in ISO8859-1. Why is that? Why not use Unicode and allow for scripts in any language? Shouldn't this be changed? In a world that is moving to Unicode, why stick to Latin1 and give people all kinds of problems when dealing with foreign characters? In my opinion, everything should be UTF-8. Really makes more sense nowadays. -- Edit bug report at http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=9666&edit=1 --