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Cc: Ilia Alshanetsky <iliaa@php.net>, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@php.net>,
	Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>,
	internals@lists.php.net, Andrei Zmievski <andrei@php.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:21:31 -0700
To: Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net>
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Subject: Re: Question regarding test system
From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski)

It has nothing to do with the encoding. var_dump() outputs the value 
type, which is 'string' for native strings and 'unicode' for Unicode 
strings. I don't see why we should merge the two.

-Andrei

On Oct 5, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Marcus Boerger wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
>   i had a chat with Dmitry this morning regarding the unpleasant state 
> of
> our test system. I assume here that everyone agrees that it is quite
> difficult to provide each and every test expectations in two variants, 
> one
> for native string executoin (e.g. unicode_semantics=off) and one for 
> unicode
> execution (e.g. unicode_semantics=on). The easy way out is to have 
> var_dump
> not print 'unicode' for namely values but instead use 'string' always. 
> Since
> the encoding is meant to be transparent anyway there shouldn't be a 
> problem.
> And in case we have tests where the difference is important we can 
> overwrite
> the setting in the --INI-- setting and use the --UEXPECT-- as we are 
> doing
> now. Dmitry now came up with the idea of providing a new ini setting to
> control this behavior. He suggests to name it 
> "var_dump.show_unicode=on/off"
> Any comments?
>
>
> Best regards,
>  Marcus