Re: Re: Turkish/Azeri locale support

From: Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:20:08 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Turkish/Azeri locale support
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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:

> 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.

I don't think that option 2 and 3 can be done in 5.x. However I'm +1
for option 2 in PHP 6 (whenever it comes).

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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