Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31116 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 80012 invoked by uid 1010); 19 Jul 2007 22:39:29 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 79997 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2007 22:39:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Jul 2007 22:39:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=andrei@gravitonic.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=andrei@gravitonic.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain gravitonic.com from 204.11.219.139 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: andrei@gravitonic.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 204.11.219.139 mail.lerdorf.com Received: from [204.11.219.139] ([204.11.219.139:60859] helo=mail.lerdorf.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 07/83-50746-F18EF964 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:39:28 -0400 Received: from [192.168.30.112] ([207.7.138.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.lerdorf.com (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-7) with ESMTP id l6JMdHUg023999; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:39:18 -0700 In-Reply-To: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648722@us-ex1.zend.net> References: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648191@us-ex1.zend.net> <54C4340A-D9EA-4B5A-B39C-B55B29B1B3BC@prohost.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648193@us-ex1.zend.net> <469B7FB1.1070507@pooteeweet.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648290@us-ex1.zend.net> <469C6436.2060009@pooteeweet.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE6483DF@us-ex1.zend.net> <469CD717.2070607@pooteeweet.org> <469CE8CE.5080208@zend.com> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648722@us-ex1.zend.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-ID: <20A6448D-A497-4D95-AA9E-72D69421BB88@gravitonic.com> Cc: "Derick Rethans" , "Stas Malyshev" , "Lukas Kahwe Smith" , "Ilia Alshanetsky" , , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:39:20 -0700 To: Andi Gutmans X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3700/Thu Jul 19 06:13:47 2007 on colo.lerdorf.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski) Python did go down that road, but take a look at Python 3000 effort and you will see that what they are trying to do is exactly what we have: native Unicode strings, without prefixes. -Andrei On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Functions would work properly with Unicode, but you would explicitly > create Unicode strings e.g. u"foobar". This is not uncommon > practice and > many other languages actually go down this route incl. Python and > various versions of C++ frameworks.