Re: Unicode strings?

From: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:33:08 +0000
Subject: Re: Unicode strings?
References: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14  Groups: php.internals 
Request: Send a blank email to [email protected] to get a copy of this message 
Hi Yasuo,


        That's not a hole in the design. It was quite deliberate and
        it had
        little to do with Unicode at the time. It was a deliberate
        effort to not
        artificially limit identifiers beyond that which the language
        syntax
        naturally prevented. Think <space> ; , { } ( ) etc.




    IMHO it was the right decision to no artificially limit
    identifiers and it is a fair trade-off for case-insensitivity
    without unicode (class ß{} class SS{}).
    With unicode identifiers there is at least one more problem
    through normalization to consider. somewhat simplified: $☀☁ and
     $⛅ (=== in unicode)



Good point, but users should use NFC UTF-8 without BOM for variable/function names.
It would be documentation issue.


in the languages i know combining diacritics are not common so can't evaluate how practical it is to type those. Would it be impossible to change code with a dumb editor?

$café !== $café
0x63 0x61 0x66 0xC3 0xA9
0x63 0x61 0x66 0x65 0xCC 0x81

cryptocompress

Thread (28 messages)

« previous php.internals (#73100) next »