Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:35911 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 78930 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2008 10:59:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Mar 2008 10:59:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mls@pooteeweet.org; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mls@pooteeweet.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain pooteeweet.org from 85.10.196.195 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 85.10.196.195 serveforce1.backendmedia.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [85.10.196.195] ([85.10.196.195:43572] helo=serveforce1.backendmedia.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id EC/49-29055-10ADBC74 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:59:14 -0500 Received: from [192.168.84.34] (office-zh.liip.ch [91.192.102.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by serveforce1.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519D1122463B; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:01:06 +0100 (CET) Cc: Marcus Boerger , internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: To: Alan Knowles In-Reply-To: <47CB3CDC.8050006@akbkhome.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:58:13 +0100 References: <1706278209.20080302232134@marcus-boerger.de> <47CB3CDC.8050006@akbkhome.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0.041, required 6, AWL 0.04) X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner-From: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an re2c [1] based lexer From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) On 03.03.2008, at 00:48, Alan Knowles wrote: > Can you clarify the Multibyte issues: > - I presume this means that it can handle ASCII/UTF8/16 etc. but > will not handle things like BIG5/GB encoding in source code - this > may be a bit of an issue around here.. > At first I also thought that this had something to do with ext/ mbstring, but since then I have learned that this is not the case. However this confusion is likely what causes many people to enable zend mb support. So the question to Stas (Alan and the rest of the world) is if they really have a script in the wild that actually requires this switch and would break if its would be disabled. And if there is such a script what exactly are the needs and how can these be filled in 5.3 using re2c. regards, Lukas