PHP needs locale insensitive strcasecmp() or your developers will
continue
hitting string comparison issues in Turkish and Azerbaijani. Ilia
patched
it in timezone parsing code. Some day other strcasecmp will pop in other
place.
Switching locale everytime you want to compare strings is a hack and not
a
bug fix.
Its a solution that works. There are very few instances where such
behavior is needed and in php6 it won't be relevant anyway since posix
locales will not be used.
This is not true at all.. I even think this is a big misconception of PHP 6.
Although this has nothing to do with the issue mentioned above, we will
still need setlocale() in PHP 6 because of externals libs. Even the bundled
PCRE uses locales, and that is very handful (e.g. locale-dependent '\w').
So, POSIX locales will be deprecated for string handling, date formatting
and such things, but they will still be used by external libs.
Nuno
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