On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Patrick ALLAERT <patrickalla...@php.net>wrote:
> 2010/5/4 Adam Harvey <ahar...@php.net>: > > 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. > > Once and for all: +1 for #2 (BTW that kind of BC will not be that hard to > fix!) > > RMs: should this really be part of PHP 5.4 if it gets approved? > AFAIK the new stable branch version number hasn't been decided yet. Tyrael
