Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19490 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38798 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Oct 2005 21:11:25 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38782 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2005 21:11:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Oct 2005 21:11:25 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.80.117.3 longsword.omniti.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([66.80.117.3:35820] helo=mail.omniti.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 81/D3-54476-D74E6434 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:11:25 -0400 Authentication-Results: mail.omniti.com smtp.user=george; auth=pass (LOGIN) DomainKey-Status: good X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_sign implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 DomainKey-Signature: q=dns; a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; s=test; d=omniti.com; h=Received:In-Reply-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Message-Id:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:From:Subject:Date:To:X-Mailer; b=ayF3DaA1VwUiTTH5oYWnZJbhDup9p45ksY4hdOzBI3OFM9lPolfvLiLEN8lCqw7w HIrLsXc6yOjXQnAaAPxbjdPete7XUbsvkX6zsNFIEa9wz6hcOaVUqAqxLj/PFfLA Received: from ([66.80.117.2:53342] helo=[10.80.116.150]) by mail.omniti.com (ecelerity 2.0 r(6738)) with SMTP id E7/11-09190-674E6434 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:11:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <99dd4f75f4ceebfe1c980cf439e97416@gravitonic.com> <4346E00A.8020504@prohost.org> <4346E0C5.3090001@lerdorf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-ID: Cc: George Schlossnagle , Rasmus Lerdorf , PHP Developers Mailing List Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:11:16 -0400 To: Derick Rethans X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unicode Implementation From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle) On Oct 7, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> >> Which is why we need the unicode=off switch. I don't think there >> is any >> way we can make Unicode PHP as fast as non-Unicode PHP. For >> people who >> need Unicode support, Unicode PHP will be faster and easier than any >> other way for them to get there, but for people who have no need for >> Unicode it would be really nice to maintain the fast non-Unicode >> mode. >> > > What is wrong with PHP 5.1? People don't *have* to upgrade to the > unicode enabled PHP if they don't want to. And it would probably be > "nice" to have that mode for some users, but should that be over > our own > back with multiple implementations of everything? Are you suggesting that people who don't want unicode should stick with 5.1 for perpetuity? George