It'd be a hassle to just remove a function from a language, I suppose... On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Reese <howell.r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom Worster wrote: > >> why use SGML character entity references in a utf-8 file or stream? can't >> you just put the character in the file? > > Because, I thought, HTML files were basically just text files with > different file extensions, and that those other characters would not > store or display properly if saved in .txt format. Was I mistaken? > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt > > That is supposed to be a UTF-8 encoded text file, between 1/3 and 1/2 > of the characters do not display correctly on my screen. Either way, > this next link suggests that Turkish characters with no equivalent in > the English language should be encoded for Web display: > > http://webdesign.about.com/od/localization/l/blhtmlcodes-tr.htm > > And because that is off-topic, I'll throw this in: > > The consensus seems to be that the proposed "ifset()" and "ifempty()" > functions are more effort than they are worth. What I'd like to know > is, why "empty()" still exists when every time I turn around, the > mentors I turn to locally tell me not to use it, to use "isset()" > instead. Because empty() doesn't work with zero. Anyone care to take > a stab at that? > > Reese > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
