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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Removal of unicode_semantics
From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski)

As far as I remember, the latest point was to remove the 
unicode_semantics switch and presume that its value is always On. At the 
same time we said that binary strings should probably be the default 
string type (which I don't agree with), and that we need to have a test 
suite to see what exactly breaks with these changes.

-Andrei

Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2008, Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
> 
>>> We've discussed this a few times in the past and it's time to make a
>>> final decision about its removal.
>>>
>>> I think most people have agreed that this is the way forward but no
>>> one has produced a patch. I have a student working on unicode
>>> conversion for the Google Summer of Code and this would help make it
>>> simpler.
>> unicode_semantics=on breaks backwards compatibility in scripts that have
>> implemented multiple character set support in current PHP setups.
> 
> Why don't you go ahead and make a list of those exacty issues then? We 
> can then see how to fix those issues. That's much more useful then just 
> posting to the mailinglist when you don't agree with something. From 
> what I've seen with my code base, the changes that I have to do are 
> minimal once some (internal) functions are fixed up.
> 
> regards,
> Derick
>