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Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:42:16 +0200
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To: Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Turkish/Azeri locale support
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:

> On 19 April 2010 11:58, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
> > As at least some of you would already be aware, there's a
> > long-standing issue with using PHP in a Turkish or Azeri locale,
> > namely that case-insensitive lookups within the Zend engine (method
> > names, for example) fail on lookups involving upper-case I characters,
> > since lower-case I in those languages is =C4=B1 instead of i (note the =
lack
> > of a dot).
>
> Well, I'm going to assume that people have had whatever say they were
> going to. It seems that we have three options, so let's put it to a
> vote.
>
> (To be completely clear, this is purely for trunk. This certainly
> isn't a candidate for backporting to 5.3.)
>
> 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.
>
> If you'd care to reply with a vote for option 1, 2 or 3, I'll tally up
> the votes in a week or so. And yes, I am volunteering to deal with
> this should option 1 or 2 be picked.
>
> Adam
>
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+1 for the 2nd option.

Tyrael

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