Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:100588 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 99472 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2017 13:36:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Sep 2017 13:36:33 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 62.31.75.76 76.75-31-62.static.virginmediabusiness.co.uk Received: from [62.31.75.76] ([62.31.75.76:16205] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 02/9E-19300-FD58AB95 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:36:32 -0400 Message-ID: <02.9E.19300.FD58AB95@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net References: <3D.0C.10715.383F8B95@pb1.pair.com> <1505382004.4078127.1105791680.3A06C2FA@webmail.messagingengine.com> <16.4C.19300.B2D7AB95@pb1.pair.com> <98ab178e-b999-7e36-5ff5-7b8c28fe0dd4@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <98ab178e-b999-7e36-5ff5-7b8c28fe0dd4@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:36:27 +0100 Lines: 2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3564.1216 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3564.1216 X-Posted-By: 62.31.75.76 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants? From: TonyMarston@hotmail.com ("Tony Marston") ""Christoph M. Becker"" wrote in message news:98ab178e-b999-7e36-5ff5-7b8c28fe0dd4@gmx.de... > >On 14.09.2017 at 14:59, Tony Marston wrote: > >> Introducing case sensitivity into what is mostly a case-insensitive >> world just for the convenience of a few programmers I do not consider to >> be acceptable. It would cause more problems for far more people than the >> insignificant few who insist on using obscure character sets. Why should >> the English-speaking world be forced to suffer just because some minor >> languages cannot handle case folding? > >This is not about an "insignificant few who insist on using obscure >character sets", but rather about a language spoken by millions of >people which has to "I" characters, namely dotted and dotless "I". >Rather consistently, the dotless "I"'s lower-case variant is "i", and >the dotted "I"'s lower-case variant is "i". There you go. > The number of people in the world who use character sets which do not have this problem far outnumber those who use character sets which do have this problem. People without this problem far outnumber the others, so it would not be a good idea to inconvenience the many just to satisfy the few. -- Tony Marston