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.
Unicode is a great idea, but I don't use unicode at the moment, but
I'd still like to have PHP6 when it is officially released without
having to do major work to make my code compliant AND without having
to turn Unicode off.
If you don't need Unicode, you don't need PHP6.
It's that simple.
For those that need it, then they can code for it. For those that
don't they still get all the other improvements in PHP6 and without
the reported speed issues as they are not using the extension.
This seems like a winner to me.
--
Wbr,
Antony Dovgal
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