On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

> Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > What do you mean?  Why wouldn't it be portable?  
> 
> Well, for one thing code written to use unicode identifiers will
> immediately be limited to running on PHP 6 installs. While code using
> ASCII identifier with standard "compat" layer could run just fine.

I don't see why this is a problem...

> Another reason to only allow ASCII is that now code can be read by
> anyone rather then just the people who are familiar with the particular
> language user. Heck, some editors do not even allow utf-8 or properly
> render some high-ascii chars making those scripts difficult if not
> impossible to edit.

Again, I don't see why this support would be a problem for *you*... if 
other people want to use it, let them. It doesn't hurt anybody who 
really doesn't use it.

Derick

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