Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:79162 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 74217 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2014 11:42:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Nov 2014 11:42:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=permerror Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 78.32.209.33 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 78.32.209.33 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Received: from [78.32.209.33] ([78.32.209.33:46110] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 41/06-40624-E3B64745 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 06:42:55 -0500 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XtEWA-0000fv-US for internals@lists.php.net; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:42:50 +0000 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:42:50 +0000 To: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20141125114250.GG6315@phcomp.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: internals@lists.php.net References: <24EE758F-BF8F-4AE9-B793-20739CD9875D@ajf.me> <20141125112050.GF6315@phcomp.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unicode Escape Syntax From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:25:17AM +0000, Andrea Faulds wrote: > Well, we *do* already have a compile-time system for declaring encoding, the declare() construct. I missed that. Reading the documentation I confess that I do not really understand what the effect of declare(encoding=xxx) does. http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.declare.php#control-structures.declare.encoding I can see how it would change a \U{arabic letter alef} -- but not what it does today. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include