Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:100611 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 81564 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2017 09:04:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Sep 2017 09:04:58 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 62.31.75.76 76.75-31-62.static.virginmediabusiness.co.uk Received: from [62.31.75.76] ([62.31.75.76:23543] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 34/79-19300-8B79BB95 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:04:57 -0400 Message-ID: <34.79.19300.8B79BB95@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> <7394E3CE-B05A-474E-8AB5-A651FDD35232@gmail.com> <47.8F.19300.9988AB95@pb1.pair.com> <20170914135519.GW8096@phcomp.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20170914135519.GW8096@phcomp.co.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:04:51 +0100 Lines: 1 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") "Alain Williams" wrote in message news:20170914135519.GW8096@phcomp.co.uk... > >On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:48:06PM +0100, Tony Marston wrote: >> "Rowan Collins" wrote in message >> news:7394E3CE-B05A-474E-8AB5-A651FDD35232@gmail.com... >> > >> >On 14 September 2017 13:59:20 BST, Tony Marston >> > wrote: >> >>Why should the >> >>English-speaking world be forced to suffer just because some minor >> >>languages >> >>cannot handle case folding? >> > >> >Have you any idea how arrogant this sounds? Why should "the >> >English-speaking world" get to make up the rules? What criteria >> >make something "a minor language"? Who gave you the right to make >> >such lofty pronouncements? >> >> Because the English-speaking world invented both computers and the >> languages used to program them. > >The light bulb was invented by an English man (Joseph Swan), the television >by a >Scott (John Logie Baird); so should the Brits and Scots be the ones that >define >light bulb and TV standards to suit their convenience ? > Don't be silly. Neither light bulbs nor television sets are affected by which case is used in which character set. -- Tony Marston