On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Tom Samplonius <t...@samplonius.org> wrote:

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> > With the loss of Unicode (which now lacks even an implementation
> > plan)
> ...
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> How has Unicode been lost?  There is tons of encoding stuff in PHP.  As of
> 5.3, you can use declare() to set the encoding for scripts.  There is the
> mb_* stuff for multibyte support.  Obviously, saying PHP has "no Unicode" as
> others have said, is wrong.  There is definitely some Unicode in PHP.
>
> Unicode (which itself is changing), will probably never be "done", and
> therefore never done in PHP.  But I've worked on multilingual UTF8 web apps
> in PHP, and I never lacked for support.  Maybe sorting of Unicode strings?
>  And I guess that some of the PHP string functions can be confused on some
> mb strings.
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http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-what-happened-to-unicode-and-php-6

Tyrael

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