Uhm, what makes you think we don't have asian users? I also don't recall suggesting that we should not have Unicode support. Don't forget how much we invested in implementing this in the engine. It was far from trivial...
Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Jani Taskinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:38 AM > To: Andi Gutmans > Cc: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? > > So what happened to the "Open" in "OpenSource" or is PHP now something > else now? > > btw. 95% of Zend users propably don't need unicode but there are a lot > more people out there who can't really use PHP right now since it > doesn't have full unicode support. The percents pulled out of sleeve > would be rather the opposite with all japanese/chinese/etc. asian > countries included.. ;) > > --Jani > > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 20:53 -0700, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > No I'm absolutely not OK with removing this switch and as we > currently > > did most of the implementation for it and are maintaining it I see no > > reason to remove it. 95% of our users couldn't care less about native > > Unicode support except for the performance hit they'd take due to the > > slower functions and increased memory usage. For most of them they > gain > > nothing and only loose. > > Anyway, don't want to reignite the thread here. I will take it > offline > > to discuss with the people who have been involved in this project and > > discuss further. The mailing list here isn't exactly working. > > > > Andi > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Andrei Zmievski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 12:02 PM > > > To: David Coallier > > > Cc: Stefan Priebsch; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lukas Kahwe Smith; > > > Antony Dovgal; Rasmus Lerdorf; Derick Rethans; Cristian Rodriguez; > > > internals@lists.php.net > > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in > PHP > > 6? > > > > > > Nothing is happening, as far as I can tell. We are at an impasse, > > > basically. Personally, I am fine with removing the damn switch and > > > going forward with PHP 6 as Unicode-only. God knows it will rid us > of > > > at least one headache - having to discuss it anymore. > > > > > > -Andrei > > > http://10fathoms.org/vu - daily photoblog > > > > > > On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:14 AM, David Coallier wrote: > > > > Time to put gas on the fire. > > > > > > > > Is this flag going to be removed or what? What is happening here > in > > > > the background that we are not seeing ? :) > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
