Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47339 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30430 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2010 20:43:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Mar 2010 20:43:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=wrowe@rowe-clan.net; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=wrowe@rowe-clan.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain rowe-clan.net from 64.202.165.37 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: wrowe@rowe-clan.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.202.165.37 smtpauth13.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [64.202.165.37] ([64.202.165.37:57799] helo=smtpauth13.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 34/06-15129-75DEF9B4 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:43:06 -0500 Received: (qmail 19666 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2010 20:43:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (76.252.112.72) by smtpauth13.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.37) with ESMTP; 16 Mar 2010 20:42:59 -0000 Message-ID: <4B9FED3B.1050907@rowe-clan.net> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:42:35 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dreamcat four CC: Lester Caine , PHP internals References: <4B9C9007.1080802@lsces.co.uk> <4B9EC3B2.7070901@zend.com> <4B9F4196.9030404@lsces.co.uk> <99cf22521003160448k5028ae61y70e1e61428d13280@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <99cf22521003160448k5028ae61y70e1e61428d13280@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Where are we ACTUALLY on Unicode? From: wrowe@rowe-clan.net ("William A. Rowe Jr.") On 3/16/2010 6:48 AM, dreamcat four wrote: > > Sure UTF-16 can make sense. But only if your external representations > are also in UTF-16. So whats the default Unicode settings for MYSQL, > POSTGRE, etc? Well, are they always set to UTF-8, or UTF-16? This is a very good point. The PHP project consumes some 30-odd libraries of extensions. How many do utf-8? How many do ucs2? Utf-16?