Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:95442 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 42213 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2016 11:10:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Aug 2016 11:10:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.230 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.230 mail4-3.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.230] ([217.147.176.230:57990] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B3/E0-34481-812DEB75 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:10:17 -0400 Received: (qmail 24271 invoked by uid 89); 25 Aug 2016 11:10:13 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 24263, pid: 24268, t: 0.0812s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.7?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 25 Aug 2016 11:10:13 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: Message-ID: <3938d503-e622-b6ae-2f9e-b0efa16074be@lsces.co.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:10:12 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 25/08/16 08:00, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > P.S. utf8_decode/encode are "Shouldn't use functions" as they make > code non I18N needlessly. According to the code, original author's > intention was to implement various encoding support. I guess this > wouldn't happen anymore. Is there any well documented alternative way of achieving the same results as provided by these functions? Much of the time there is on-list debates on how something should be done, but it gets somewhat watered down in a migration guide ... if it makes it there at all. I keep saying it ... just where is the 'best practice' guide to using all the 'new' features of PHP? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk