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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:17:27 +0100
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To: Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 19:46, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Yeah.
>> We tried it, and it simply didn't pan out (performance, bc, lost interest,
>> ..).
>
> I think it is a bit premature to declare the death of Unicode in PHP. Yes,
> we know there are problems, and yes, it was harder that initially thought,
> so we may want to take a step back and rethink it. Also we may want to get
> Unicode out of the way of other PHP development, since it's taking longer
> than planned. But that doesn't mean we should bury it.

Sorry, it wasn't my intention to declare unicode in PHP dead.

I meant to say we need to explore other options, and start smaller.
Look into what we can do with the mbstring patch and expand the intl
extension to cover more features would be a good first step.

-Hannes