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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unicode support
From: aleksey.tulinov@gmail.com (Aleksey Tulinov)

On 15/10/14 15:58, Rowan Collins wrote:

Rowan,

>> What is confusing me is that i think you're seeing it as a major
>> implementation defect. To avoid arguable implementations, i've made
>> short example in Java:
>>
>> System.out.println(new StringBuffer("noël").reverse().toString());
>>
>> It does produce string "l̈eon" as i would expect.
>
> Why do you expect that? Is this a result which would ever be useful?
>

I think expect it to work this way because i know that this is a good 
trade-off between performance and produced result. It also leaves a 
possibility to do it better if i need to.

> To be clear, I am suggesting that we aim to be the language which gets
> this right, where other languages get it wrong.
>

Thank you for explaining this. I also think it could do better. I think 
Unicode-aware strrev() shouldn't be too complicated to do.