On 26.03.2010, at 14:25, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:

> 
> 
> 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 ...).

sure .. i wasnt saying anything else .. 

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
m...@pooteeweet.org




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