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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:06:22 +0200
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To: Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.1
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:44 PM Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Den man. 22. mar. 2021 kl. 11.25 skrev Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com
> >:
> >
> > Hi internals,
> >
> > It's time for another deprecation RFC:
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_1
>
> I'd like to suggest adding `nl_langinfo()` to the list of
> deprecations, it is a non-cross platform oddity that make less sense
> with the current deprecations of functions like `strptime()` (also
> non-cross platform) and `strftime()`. Personally I have seen more code
> in the wild use array derefencing on `localeconv()` (which is cross
> platform) over using `nl_langinfo()` for a single category.
>

I'm not really familiar with either of those (first time I hear about them,
in fact), but it looks to me like localeconv() only covers part of the
nl_langinfo() functionality. At a glance, at least the whole LC_TIME part
isn't covered. I'm somewhat leery of deprecating functionality where we
don't have any other way to access the same information.

Regards,
Nikita

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