On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:07 PM, jvlad <d...@yandex.ru> wrote: >> as far as I see, the changes depends on how many work has to be done, >> to preserve something. > > I see the same. > >> posix functions like split, and so could have been modified to work >> with the unicode strings, but nobody cared enough. > > Because this work is not in the TODO (milestones). > yeah, not anymore, but there was a thread about this on the internals that (A. make the posix unicode-ready, B, use the preg extension for the ereg functions transparently), but nobody cared enough. The whole release of the 5.3 was a little bit mess. There was a lot of feature, some of them wasn't ready for release, but it was too much finished stuff to let this slide, and we are much further from PHP6 than 5 years ago... So its kinda funny, that some stuff had to die, because some stuff, that wasnt even finished would be incompatible with. Sorry for my english.
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