I have to agree, I think giving the ability to toggle Unicode support is going to add more confusion and grief for application developers, especially with it being PHP_INI_SYSTEM.
The reason for the option as far I can remember was to do with performance when you were working with binary strings, this may no longer be valid. Scott Jani Taskinen wrote: > During Derick's talk about PHP 6 at PHP Vikinger, I started to wonder > what exactly was the reasoning behind adding something like > "unicode.semantics" option. Derick didn't remember, neither did I. > > Apparently it's another one of these "register_globals" or > "magic_quotes_*" directives we'll remove in PHP 7? :D > > I mean, if PHP 6 is about unicode, why upgrade to PHP 6 and disable it? > Just stay with PHP 5 then.. > > --Jani -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
