Re: Re: Turkish/Azeri locale support

From: Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 13:09:13 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Turkish/Azeri locale support
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On 4 May 2010 13:14, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
> The options are:
>
> 1. Apply Tomas's patch to make case-insensitive lookups
> locale-ignorant. Pros: fixes immediate problem. Cons: breaks BC for
> case-insensitive function/method name lookups for high-bit characters
> in single-byte encodings. (Not that we've ever advertised or
> documented that.)
>
> 2. Make function/method names case-sensitive, per Stan's e-mail. Pros:
> fixes problem; brings PHP into line with most other languages; extra
> consistency with variables; possible performance improvement. Cons: BC
> break from current documented behaviour.
>
> 3. Do nothing. Pros: no BC breaks of any kind. Cons: continues to
> annoy Turkish and Azeri developers and those developing for those
> locales.


+1 for Option 2. Coming from languages where are case sensitive it has
never occurred to me that PHP wasn't case sensitive. So no BC for at
least 1 user!

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