On 19 April 2010 11:58, Adam Harvey <ahar...@php.net> wrote: > As at least some of you would already be aware, there's a > long-standing issue with using PHP in a Turkish or Azeri locale, > namely that case-insensitive lookups within the Zend engine (method > names, for example) fail on lookups involving upper-case I characters, > since lower-case I in those languages is ı instead of i (note the lack > of a dot).
Well, I'm going to assume that people have had whatever say they were going to. It seems that we have three options, so let's put it to a vote. (To be completely clear, this is purely for trunk. This certainly isn't a candidate for backporting to 5.3.) The options are: 1. Apply Tomas's patch to make case-insensitive lookups locale-ignorant. Pros: fixes immediate problem. Cons: breaks BC for case-insensitive function/method name lookups for high-bit characters in single-byte encodings. (Not that we've ever advertised or documented that.) 2. Make function/method names case-sensitive, per Stan's e-mail. Pros: fixes problem; brings PHP into line with most other languages; extra consistency with variables; possible performance improvement. Cons: BC break from current documented behaviour. 3. Do nothing. Pros: no BC breaks of any kind. Cons: continues to annoy Turkish and Azeri developers and those developing for those locales. If you'd care to reply with a vote for option 1, 2 or 3, I'll tally up the votes in a week or so. And yes, I am volunteering to deal with this should option 1 or 2 be picked. Adam -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
