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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:08:43 +0200
To: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre)

On 6/19/07, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:

> But this is no different from writing code that will work on both PHP 5
> and PHP 6.  The only difference is that instead of checking for PHP 5
> you will be checking for Unicode.  Like I said, we don't want the
> Unicode decision to be synonymous with PHP 5 vs. PHP 6 because then the
> non-Unicode folks will never get the benefits of the non-Unicode
> improvements in PHP 6 and we would be forced to support PHP 5 for a lot
> longer.  We really stretch our already thing resources in order to
> support multiple branches, so anything we can do to get as many people
> as possible onto the same codebase helps us a lot.

Just as a last (hopefully) comment, even if nothing seemed to have an
influence, no matter how many we are to prefer a unicode only mode (so
far only you are in favour of it, maybe Andree too but I don't
remember his opinion on this topic :).

The gain we hope to have by keeping a non unicode mode is about having
more users moving to PHP6. I would like to know why it will work
better than with php5, any thoughts?

And let forget that maintaining (and develop/implement) these two
modes will obviously take more time.

Cheers,
--Pierre