- From: Adam Harvey <adam@adamharvey.name>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:22:39 +0800
On 24 July 2010 15:00, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > On 7/24/10 2:49 AM, Brett Zamir wrote: >> Hopefully to be fixed in PHP6 with its promise of full Unicode support... >> >> Though per http://www.slideshare.net/kfish/unicode-php6-presentation : > > Right. ?Not holding my breath yet. ?;) Worth noting that, in the PHP specific case, PHP 6 has in fact been "reset". (Cancelled would be equally accurate, at least in terms of it being a full Unicode extravaganza.) At the moment, PHP doesn't really have any conception of character sets anyway ? strings are strings of bytes. Developers obviously should be dealing with $_GET data as UTF-8, but in practice given the amount of old, crufty PHP code out there written by people who've probably never heard of Unicode, who knows what's really going on. I suspect "the world is 7-bit ASCII" is still a depressingly common attitude. Adam
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