Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:48193 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 9879 invoked from network); 4 May 2010 13:09:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 May 2010 13:09:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=rquadling@googlemail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=rquadling@googlemail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain googlemail.com designates 209.85.161.42 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rquadling@googlemail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.161.42 mail-fx0-f42.google.com Received: from [209.85.161.42] ([209.85.161.42:43519] helo=mail-fx0-f42.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 78/90-06774-19C10EB4 for ; Tue, 04 May 2010 09:09:38 -0400 Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so3216561fxm.29 for ; Tue, 04 May 2010 06:09:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:reply-to :in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type; bh=m6ntWuP3gQMadq9OV1xZoW8fye6gn6ElsTPTDme0GKw=; b=GEwLLgXrbt6r07GwCWBGuAf+90bq6Rk9JImqED7XXyJjKOwDjURWuggZHFahH798jQ +J53vLEhEAq/QfBKVyIbh2UF/zpniTJN4vwcfTXITAB5ssYqmAkX8cjlUXT6QhgX71av 0CxsBxn5g191CFxfnPvc3/vK31VvofqRIomCs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; b=BoMHo/NOrEaFasBX4bnnh6sbzSenAKwvMd345yGv1jPymnQuQG4mDp8mSjolEm4nvW ra2wuO9vUFmPW3+LVWvALDryzkUnKLXzaOOxCLewx7OgB5HjGuWf3GVKLWgvUd8YlhGH lVSZEruw7TuayH0BUBLmWeF87NjLEdOnWP75o= Received: by 10.223.10.11 with SMTP id n11mr4172523fan.3.1272978573115; Tue, 04 May 2010 06:09:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.113.16 with HTTP; Tue, 4 May 2010 06:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: RQuadling@googlemail.com In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:09:13 +0100 Message-ID: To: Adam Harvey Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Turkish/Azeri locale support From: rquadling@googlemail.com (Richard Quadling) On 4 May 2010 13:14, Adam Harvey wrote: > The options are: > > 1. Apply Tomas's patch to make case-insensitive lookups > locale-ignorant. Pros: fixes immediate problem. Cons: breaks BC for > case-insensitive function/method name lookups for high-bit characters > in single-byte encodings. (Not that we've ever advertised or > documented that.) > > 2. Make function/method names case-sensitive, per Stan's e-mail. Pros: > fixes problem; brings PHP into line with most other languages; extra > consistency with variables; possible performance improvement. Cons: BC > break from current documented behaviour. > > 3. Do nothing. Pros: no BC breaks of any kind. Cons: continues to > annoy Turkish and Azeri developers and those developing for those > locales. +1 for Option 2. Coming from languages where are case sensitive it has never occurred to me that PHP wasn't case sensitive. So no BC for at least 1 user! -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling