On Thursday 15 September 2005 06:12, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Makoto Tozawa wrote: > > Jani Taskinen wrote: > >> Show me one such person please. One that does this using PHP. :) > >> One that really NEEDS this to be possible.. > > > > It's impossible to find one as PHP doesn't support it today. > > > > Think of defining a class which encapsulates a database table, and the > > table name and column names are in native languages. If PHP restricts > > the class and function names to ascii characters, programmers need to > > maintain the mapping from the table name to the class name, and the > > column name to the set/get function name. Can you guess how painfull > > it would be? > > Think of a code generator which generates classes from database tables. > > What kind of class/function names the code generator could automatically > > generate if the programming language restricts the identifiers to ascii > > characters? > > Same goes for SOAP, COM and Java integration. All of these potentially > need to map to unicode identifiers and trying to work around this would > be annoying.
I totally agree with you all guys. The benefits of having unicode support are so much and I think ASCII limitations are not good even for PHP's image in aspect of increasing the popularity of PHP, the number of young developers using it in their native language, etc. So, I'm two hands up for the unicode support - we have to keep that line. Have a nice day. > > -Rasmus -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436
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