2010/3/26 Lukas Kahwe Smith <m...@pooteeweet.org> > > On 26.03.2010, at 13:39, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 18:08 +0000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >> rasmus Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:08:06 +0000 > >> > >> Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=296685 > >> > >> Log: > >> Switch default_charset, if not specified, from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 > >> I have been wanting to make this change for years, but there is a small > >> chance of BC issues, so it shouldn't go into a minor release. > > > > I in "my world" this isn't just a small chance of a break. Over here > > every application has to deal with non-ASCII characters (äöüßÄÖÜ). Many > > "average" applications don't set the encoding, most don't care. > > > > With the environments using more and more Utf-8 (operating system > > environments, editor defaults, ...) the change is good but it is no > > small thing but will cause "trouble" for many users having iso-8859-1 > > texts in their database and getting broken pages after the upgrade and > > we should advise users to mind their encodings! > > > > Fixing applications is easy, getting the knowledge to our users is hard. > > > I had the same feeling when Rasmus mentioned his change. I think its a good > chance, but I am not sure if we should include it in a 5.4 if that is the > version name for the next release. > > Its not 5.4 branch, its the trunk, when you release, you will merge the selected patches from the trunk to the release branch(this is why you need the rfc-s for the features/modification, it will be easier to tell which patch should be merged to the next release). As far as I know from the other thread(trunk is alive and ...).
Tyrael > regards, > Lukas Kahwe Smith > m...@pooteeweet.org > > > > > -- > Windows Internals Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
