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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] intl naming
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I wanted to ask the people here for opinions on the subject of functions 
> naming in pecl/intl (hopefully soon to be ext/intl ;) module. Current 
> state can be seen at http://docs.php.net/manual/en/book.intl.php

I suppose the main question here is the simple one.
Will PHP6 be integrally - unicode?

Personally I WANT a clean character set free base to work from and that is 
what I was under the impression that PHP6 was going to provide. If the core is 
running unicode ( and I see no logical reason why it should run anything else 
- use PHP5 for an 'ascii' based version ) then why are we discussing 
separating out functions which are part of that core.

The core objects should properly handle unicode, so why have DUPLICATE 
functions such as Date and DateFormatter at all? Number and possibly Currency 
should also exist in the same way as Date? Collation is as much part of 
database handling as array, and upper and lower functions are not being moved 
TO intl so why should there be different handling of things.

I had expected to be running PHP6 in a clean UTF-8 mode by now, and that 
functions like localeconv would simply work. If that is not the intention for 
PHP6 then perhaps we need to start looking to a replacement of PHP6 already :(

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