Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:36785 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39110 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2008 22:57:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Apr 2008 22:57:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:10298] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 92/CA-07453-BE065F74 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:57:51 -0500 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 01:58:19 +0300 Received: from [192.168.16.94] ([192.168.16.94]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:58:15 -0700 Message-ID: <47F560E4.7060609@zend.com> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:57:40 -0700 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lester Caine CC: PHP internals References: <47F463F0.4030407@zend.com> <47F47360.8040606@lsces.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <47F47360.8040606@lsces.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Apr 2008 22:58:15.0998 (UTC) FILETIME=[338965E0:01C895DE] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] intl naming From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) Hi! > I suppose the main question here is the simple one. > Will PHP6 be integrally - unicode? Sure, it will :) > run anything else - use PHP5 for an 'ascii' based version ) then why are > we discussing separating out functions which are part of that core. Because we need them much sooner than PHP 6 would be released. We need them yesterday. > The core objects should properly handle unicode, so why have DUPLICATE > functions such as Date and DateFormatter at all? Number and possibly We don't duplicate them, we add them. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com