Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30495 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 56107 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Jul 2007 11:57:42 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 56092 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2007 11:57:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jul 2007 11:57:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.94.239.5 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.94.239.5] ([82.94.239.5:50104] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 54/A0-50692-33E2E864 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:57:39 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l66BvVLS008870; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:57:31 +0200 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:57:31 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.ez.no To: Richard Quadling cc: Antony Dovgal , Lukas Kahwe Smith , Rasmus Lerdorf , Cristian Rodriguez , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <10845a340707060455o174f637h81e744c049ad30ad@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: 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> <10845a340707060455o174f637h81e744c049ad30ad@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Richard Quadling wrote: > 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? Because to support Unicode the *engine* needs to be able to work with it. That is not something you can do with an extension. Derick