On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> UTF8 introduces a level of complexity and can be used used in many > places in PHP, but it does seem that there is no drive these days to > make the core a clean UTF8 environment. This should perhaps be addressed > again for PHP8? > > *Cough*, *Cough*, PHP 6, *Cough*, *Cough*. Comedy aside, Full UTF functionality was planned for PHP 6 and ended up sinking the branch because it was way more complicated that anyone realized at first. Someone involved with the development at that time can speak to it more accurately - all I know is hearsay and conjecture.
