Re: Re: Turkish/Azeri locale support

From: Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 12:34:53 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Turkish/Azeri locale support
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Pierre Joye wrote:

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, As Lukas clearly stated, case sensivity is not an option for PHP 5.4 so I was voting for option 2 in PHP6 anyway :) -- Steven

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