I would like if you stick to the original issue: can a PHP source file be in utf-8. It's not about the output, that is properly supported. Think it would be a good idea anyhow that PHP would support utf-8 source files as it seems utf-8 is going to be the de-facto standard for text files anyhow. "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1274988834.2202.285.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxx > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 15:28 -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: > >> From: tedd >> >> > The Unicode database uses the same lower >> > character values (i.e., "code points") as does >> > ASCII, namely 0-127, and thus UFT-8 (8-bit >> > variable width encoding) is really a super-set >> > which includes the sub-set of ASCII. >> > >> > The "Wingdings" font that Ash refers to is the >> > really the "Dingbat" char set in Unicode, as >> > shown here: >> > >> > The use of UFT-8 encoding in everything (web and >> > php) should present much less problems globally >> > than it is trying to fight it. >> >> Thanks tedd, >> >> The real question is whether unicode is even relevant now that the UTF >> series is available. I see no reason to have to deal with two competing >> "specifications", when one of them is more than adequate for the job and >> the other is not even finished yet. That's like the old days when a few >> users demanded we support both ASCII and EBCDIC. That didn't get very >> far either. >> >> Bob McConnell >> > > > Bob, UTF is unicode (Unicode Transformation Format) > > Interesting enough to note, and not sure if Tedd knows this or not (he > probably does!) but Chrome has a nice feature for those punycode URLs; > it suggests the actual real URL instead once you type the domain in. Not > sure about Safari right now, couldn't be bothered to fire up a VM just > to check. I would assume Firefox handles these URLs well enough too. > > Tedd, does that URL actually go anywhere, as I got nothing when I tried > visiting it, both the actual URL and the punycode version. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
