Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34892 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 93116 invoked by uid 1010); 23 Jan 2008 20:03:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 93100 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2008 20:03:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Jan 2008 20:03:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ceo@l-i-e.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ceo@l-i-e.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain l-i-e.com from 67.139.134.202 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ceo@l-i-e.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.139.134.202 o2.hostbaby.com FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) (2) Received: from [67.139.134.202] ([67.139.134.202:2675] helo=o2.hostbaby.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 1F/F1-17042-08D97974 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:03:13 -0500 Received: (qmail 74651 invoked by uid 98); 23 Jan 2008 20:03:29 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.88.7/5531. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.079051 secs); 23 Jan 2008 20:03:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Jan 2008 20:03:28 -0000 Received: from 209.254.223.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:03:28 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <1201.209.254.223.2.1201118608.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <47979570.4010703@lerdorf.com> References: <4794AE48.20005@daylessday.org> <38791.98.193.37.55.1201055548.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <47979570.4010703@lerdorf.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:03:28 -0600 (CST) To: "php-dev" Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] why we must get rid of unicode.semantics switch ASAP From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch") On Wed, January 23, 2008 1:28 pm, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > I don't disagree with this, and that is actually why I insisted on > having the unicode-semantics switch from the early days of the Unicode > discussions, so you can blame me, again, if you consider it a bad > design > decision. Would the world really end for people who write NEW apps in a NEW version of PHP, #6, if they had to put u"foo" to get their nifty new-fangled Unicode strings?... Surely that is better than making a BC break of gigantic proportions for the unwashed masses that don't know a charset from a croquette and having NOBODY move to PHP 6 except a handful of large corporations... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?