On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Nuno Lopes wrote:
I have already started documenting the Unicode stuff about one year ago (http://php.net/unicode). Most is already out-of-date, but it is a start point. What we were discussing is if we should change every page to mention that it is unicode-safe/aware/compatible/whatever. We were all against that because changing every single file would be a pain for us and mainly for the translators. All functions will be converted by the time PHP 6 is released, so there is no really interest in marking every single function as such.
As far as I have seen adding an entity was the suggested method, which should not be a problem for translators to adapt to IMHO. In case this entity is just a "this has unicode support" text, and nothing more, and if all text handling functions will indeed have Unicode support, then adding these entities is really not seem to worth it.
Gabor
