On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> Yeah. >> We tried it, and it simply didn't pan out (performance, bc, lost interest, >> ..). > > I think it is a bit premature to declare the death of Unicode in PHP. Yes, we > know there are problems, and yes, it was harder that initially thought, so we > may want to take a step back and rethink it. Also we may want to get Unicode > out of the way of other PHP development, since it's taking longer than > planned. But that doesn't mean we should bury it.
How have other languages progressed down the unicode road? Is there anything we can learn from their progress over these past few years? Or is the problem simply lack of volunteer hours? If so, maybe a strong effort to create real internals documentation (that includes unicode goodness) a possible solution? Regards, Philip -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
