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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield)

On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Richard Lynch wrote:

> And did I dream the thread on this way back when where it was stated
> that Unicode was backwards-compatible, so this wouldn't be a problem?
>
> Yet now it seems that UTF-16 is *not* backwards-compatible, and this
> seems like a pretty big problem to me.
>
> Oh well.  I guess I'll just shut up and hope most of my code doesn't
> break when I go copying/pasting it into new sites that are locked into
> Unicode mode with no way for me to change that...

AFAIK, UTF-8 is backward compatible with ASCII.  UTF-16 is not.  That's why 
Microsoft defaults to UTF-16 (when they don't default to Windows-1251 or 
whatever crap it is) and the rest of the universe (at least the parts of it 
that I've seen) defaults to UTF-8.  

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