On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 06/07/07, Antony Dovgal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06.07.2007 15:32, Richard Quadling wrote: > > > If Unicode had been an extension (one of those that are part of the > > > core and cannot be disabled) with its own > > > classes/exceptions/functions/etc, then everyone would have been happy. > > > > Moreover, we do have such an extension, it's called "mbstring" and > > you can use it even in PHP4. But the point is that it's _just an > > extension_, hence the Unicode support is far far from full. > > Why couldn't mbstring be upgraded to offer "full" Unicode support?
Because to support Unicode the *engine* needs to be able to work with it. That is not something you can do with an extension. Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
