Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30494 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 54087 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Jul 2007 11:55:25 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 54071 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2007 11:55:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jul 2007 11:55:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=rquadling@googlemail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=rquadling@googlemail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain googlemail.com designates 64.233.162.238 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rquadling@googlemail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.162.238 nz-out-0506.google.com Received: from [64.233.162.238] ([64.233.162.238:62101] helo=nz-out-0506.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FA/50-50692-DAD2E864 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:55:25 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i1so160187nzh for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:55:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=a3VYR5EZx/OMNJx6AWFTp3mo8d/VB5B/886rp7DTKdD8316jPMCwjDpufjjbnUT5uT2qF7CPvKrU8YDf37ZCir84DhdctHS3Mc5IZ9XyVC+kElVhMJ8fodF54kIm+l6TZXZjK8N3EAN+X8PlozCZatUaHeTry9L1E/wB5pjGUsY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tCqMQYk8poPUi0TX9C+F7x3rlpRrd438+TZOO/zgseZHhhYRkuuwcMY4DHMKg0OaIP8N+C2LyDqwOnbN8cb2hDrQyurnGKwvn6Whj/JyBeFwUBRdDYmWn4J4LKVHUnRg8sII/64OiKRspDcO3KtJ+w828kgQtNgCloj7cV57D8A= Received: by 10.115.92.2 with SMTP id u2mr552946wal.1183722922449; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:55:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.205.19 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 04:55:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <10845a340707060455o174f637h81e744c049ad30ad@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:55:22 +0100 Reply-To: RQuadling@GoogleMail.com To: "Antony Dovgal" Cc: "Lukas Kahwe Smith" , "Rasmus Lerdorf" , "Derick Rethans" , "Cristian Rodriguez" , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <468E2A9C.8030704@zend.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1181829227.3478.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <2169.24.1.37.132.1183693664.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <1183699755.14343.5.camel@johannes.nop> <7d5a202f0707060224oa64dfeaw2c7ee17a735648f9@mail.gmail.com> <468E1158.2030900@lerdorf.com> <468E13C6.1070109@pooteeweet.org> <468E2009.9000703@zend.com> <10845a340707060432h6516ea5eja0995dbc974baa0a@mail.gmail.com> <468E2A9C.8030704@zend.com> 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 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. Why couldn't mbstring be upgraded to offer "full" Unicode support? -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"