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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
From: tokul@users.sourceforge.net ("Tomas Kuliavas")

>>>>>> Unicode code points can be defined with \u, but PHP6 breaks
>>>>>> existing  octal and hex escape sequences.
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand what this means...
>>>
>>> I think I know...
>>>
>>> I have code like this, somewhere:
>>>
>>> if (preg_match("|[\xF0-\xFF]|", $data)){
>>>   $data = un_microsuck($data);
>>> }
>>>
>>> un_microsuck() basically detects and converts any of the goof-ball
>>> extended ASCII from MS products (Word, Outlook, etc) to an HTML
>>> equivalent character.
>>>
>>> But now \xF0 isn't going to be ASCII 128 anymore, is it?
>>
>> \xF0 never was ASCII. ASCII (ISO-646) is 7bit character set. \xF0 is
>> decimal 240. It is 8bit.
>
> Don't tell me.
>
> Tell Microsoft.
>
> Cuz I sure as heck get a LOT of input data >> \x7f and I have to do
> something reasonable with it...
>
> And I did say "extended ASCII" in the other paragraph, after all...
>
>>> Or maybe \xF0 will "work" but the octal \360 won't?
>>
>> Are you sure that you can't do that by setting
>> unicode.something_encoding to iso-8859-1 or windows-1252?
>
> I dunno.
>
> Doesn't really matter if I can't set those in .htaccess, that's for sure.

All unicode. settings except unicode.semantics are PHP_INI_ALL.

From README.UNICODE
----
Script Encoding
===============
...
If you cannot change the encoding system wide, you can use a pragma to
override the INI setting in a local script:

   <?php declare(encoding = 'Shift-JIS'); ?>
----

-- 
Tomas