On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Tom Samplonius <t...@samplonius.org> wrote:
> > > > How has Unicode been lost? > > > > http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-what-happened-to-unicode-and-php-6 > > Well, that explains how that particular project melted down, but what > Unicode features did people want out of that project that they didn't get? no, that explains what was the originals goals, which isn't just getting unicode support, but a full internationalization support, and how that failed by the lack of support and understanding. > The presentation implied that there was vast goals for the project, > including a lot of localization features. It seems like some of the smaller > features can be worked into a Son-of-Unicode project, and maybe rolled into > 5.5? > it would be a good thing, but nobody stepped up for that, and it seems that somehow it isn't really important for the internals. > > But right now, there is this impression of failure, and implication that > PHP has no Unicode, because a project to add UTF16 to everything in PHP > wasn't completed. > > yes there is the impression, Unicode support was the flagship feature of the PHP6 release. of course we can rationalize the importance of the full unicode support, or redefine success, but that won't change the facts that 5 years of work on I18n was botched with PHP6. Tyrael
