On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

> Hi Jani,
> 
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 16:53 +0300, Jani Taskinen wrote:
> > During Derick's talk about PHP 6 at PHP Vikinger, I started to wonder
> > what exactly was the reasoning behind adding something like
> > "unicode.semantics" option. Derick didn't remember, neither did I.
> 
> The reason was to "keep BC"
> 
> > Apparently it's another one of these "register_globals" or
> > "magic_quotes_*" directives we'll remove in PHP 7? :D
> > 
> > I mean, if PHP 6 is about unicode, why upgrade to PHP 6 and disable it?
> > Just stay with PHP 5 then..
> 
> - The ini Setting changes the behaviour of the code in a quite
>   drastic way. This is even worse then magic_quotes which could 
>   be fixed by using some prepending file removing/adding slashes
>   depending on the setting.
> 
> - The UG(unicode) checks in the code make maintenance way harder.
> 
> - This feature doesn't bring BC - there will still be enough BC
>   breaks.
> 
> - I guess we're adding a few thousand UG(unicode) checks during
>   each request which certainly cost a bit performance
> 
> Conclusion: Let's remove that damn setting.

Just to state the obvious... I agree here.

Derick
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