On December 15, 2003 05:37 am, Stig S. Bakken wrote: > So you think the right solution is to dismiss multibyte users and direct > them to the hacks (mbstring etc) that have been used previously instead > of thinking ahead?
IMHO calling multibyte a hack would be great disservice to the developers of that extension. We don't call ext/pgsql a hack, simply because it's not builtin, do we? > If I were starting a language from scratch today, I would make character > encoding part of the string "zval" structure. IMHO that's where it > belongs. As an alternative for PHP 5[.1], there is room for a > "multibyte bit" in the zval that various functions can use to choose > between "sizeof(byte)==sizeof(char)" and "sizeof(byte) < sizeof(char)" > implementations. If you were designing a new language you wouldn't have legacy users who'd suffer (significantly) because of features added for other users. Ilia -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
