Re: [PHP-DEV] Binary string forward compatibility removal

2016-11-07 Thread Niklas Keller
2016-11-06 20:22 GMT+01:00 Pedro Magalhães : > Hi internals, > > I've created a PR (https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2187) aiming at > the removal of the binary string forward compatibility. > > Reproducing the description of the PR: > > In version 5.2.1, the b prefix and the (binary) cast

Re: [PHP-DEV] Binary string forward compatibility removal

2016-11-06 Thread Nikita Popov
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 8:56 PM, François Laupretre wrote: > Hi, > > it was stated during the pre-7 discussions, that this flag would be kept > for possible future unicode-compliant developments. So, people needing > binary strings are still encouraged to use the flag, even if it is not used > in

Re: [PHP-DEV] Binary string forward compatibility removal

2016-11-06 Thread François Laupretre
Hi, it was stated during the pre-7 discussions, that this flag would be kept for possible future unicode-compliant developments. So, people needing binary strings are still encouraged to use the flag, even if it is not used in the current versions. Regards François Le 06/11/2016 à 20:22, P

[PHP-DEV] Binary string forward compatibility removal

2016-11-06 Thread Pedro Magalhães
Hi internals, I've created a PR (https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2187) aiming at the removal of the binary string forward compatibility. Reproducing the description of the PR: In version 5.2.1, the b prefix and the (binary) cast were introduced for forward compatibility with the PHP6