On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Alain Williams <a...@phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > If we decide to support non-utf-8 encoding at compile time then we could > extend > the syntax a bit to allow the encoding to be specified, eg: > > \U{utf-8: arabic letter alef} > > \U{iso-8859-6: arabic letter alef} > God, that's such a PHP thing to do. And not in a good way...
I get the argument against this RFC on the grounds that it's a half-measure, but on the other hand, we all know what happened to our full-measure solution. And that bit of history is why I actually like this as a small, simple, and practical step forward. That's a very PHP thing to do, in a good way. -Sara -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php