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Subject: Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
From: scottmacvicar@ntlworld.com (Scott MacVicar)

I have to agree, I think giving the ability to toggle Unicode support is
going to add more confusion and grief for application developers,
especially with it being PHP_INI_SYSTEM.

The reason for the option as far I can remember was to do with
performance when you were working with binary strings, this may no
longer be valid.

Scott

Jani Taskinen wrote:
> During Derick's talk about PHP 6 at PHP Vikinger, I started to wonder
> what exactly was the reasoning behind adding something like
> "unicode.semantics" option. Derick didn't remember, neither did I.
> 
> Apparently it's another one of these "register_globals" or
> "magic_quotes_*" directives we'll remove in PHP 7? :D
> 
> I mean, if PHP 6 is about unicode, why upgrade to PHP 6 and disable it?
> Just stay with PHP 5 then..
> 
> --Jani