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Subject: Request decoding in PHP 6 [patch]
From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski)

Request decoding is one of a few remaining pieces of the Unicode puzzle. The proposed 
solution was outlined in a blog post [1] I wrote a while back. There has been no movement 
on this front pretty much since then, but now that 5.3 is wrapping up I want to put some 
momentum behind PHP 6. Towards that, I have been working on a patch that implements the 
request decoding functionality. The patch [2] and the notes [3] are linked to below. This 
is not a final effort by any means, but I believe the patch is solid and the rest can be 
done in a similar manner. Right now, it implements only $_POST, $_GET, $_FILES, and 
$_REQUEST decoding. Deciding how to handle $_COOKIES is the next step, which is mentioned 
in the notes. Please take a look and comment.

-Andrei

[1] http://gravitonic.com/2007/02/php-6-and-request-decoding
[2] http://gravitonic.com/dump/request_decoding.patch
[3] http://gravitonic.com/dump/request_decoding.txt