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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
From: rquadling@googlemail.com ("Richard Quadling")

On 06/07/07, Antony Dovgal <antony@zend.com> wrote:
> On 06.07.2007 15:32, Richard Quadling wrote:
> > If Unicode had been an extension (one of those that are part of the
> > core and cannot be disabled) with its own
> > classes/exceptions/functions/etc, then everyone would have been happy.
>
> Moreover, we do have such an extension, it's called "mbstring" and you can use it even in PHP4.
> But the point is that it's _just an extension_, hence the Unicode support is far far from full.
>
> > Unicode is a great idea, but I don't use unicode at the moment, but
> > I'd still like to have PHP6 when it is officially released without
> > having to do major work to make my code compliant AND without having
> > to turn Unicode off.
>
> If you don't need Unicode, you don't need PHP6.
> It's that simple.

So, all the time and effort going into PHP6 is for 1 maybe-used set of
functionality which also seems to slow down the entire system. I know
I MUST be missing something here.



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