Yep, we said that we'd remove the switch. Then we'd see how compatibility fairs and if we discover the upgrade path is too painful we'd consider making "" be binary string and require u"" for Unicode strings. But this was TBD depending on people's experiences and our ability to deliver an easy migration path for applications. So for now we should remove the switch. We can do this if needed.
Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrei Zmievski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:36 AM > To: Derick Rethans > Cc: Tomas Kuliavas; internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Removal of unicode_semantics > > As far as I remember, the latest point was to remove the > unicode_semantics switch and presume that its value is always On. At > the > same time we said that binary strings should probably be the default > string type (which I don't agree with), and that we need to have a test > suite to see what exactly breaks with these changes. > > -Andrei > > Derick Rethans wrote: > > On Sun, 4 May 2008, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > > > >>> We've discussed this a few times in the past and it's time to make > a > >>> final decision about its removal. > >>> > >>> I think most people have agreed that this is the way forward but no > >>> one has produced a patch. I have a student working on unicode > >>> conversion for the Google Summer of Code and this would help make > it > >>> simpler. > >> unicode_semantics=on breaks backwards compatibility in scripts that > have > >> implemented multiple character set support in current PHP setups. > > > > Why don't you go ahead and make a list of those exacty issues then? > We > > can then see how to fix those issues. That's much more useful then > just > > posting to the mailinglist when you don't agree with something. From > > what I've seen with my code base, the changes that I have to do are > > minimal once some (internal) functions are fixed up. > > > > regards, > > Derick > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
