[Solar-talk] Top 1 PHP Mistake

[Antti Holvikari]

On 7/25/06, Rodrigo Moraes <rodrigo.moraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Marco Tabini has published an interesting list of PHP mistakes; I
> agree with number one, mostly because of this part:
>
> #1: Lack of Unicode Support
> [...] "However, Unicode is indispensable for penetration in those
> markets where OSS is becoming increasingly relevant, such as the Far
> East. This may not mean much to you today if you mainly do business in
> western countries that are just as easily served by the ASCII
> character set—but I believe that this problem is harming everyone.
> First of all, many emerging markets that need good Unicode support are
> growing much faster than most western economies; this means that, as
> peddlers of software services and products, we are effectively shut
> off from a significant present and future source of income." [...]
>
> The full article is here:
> http://hades.phparch.com/ceres/public/article/index.php/art::columns::exit0::july/1
>
> And that's why I have great interest to make this issue painless with Solar.

Character encoding is always a pain in the **s. You guys are doing
great job solving this issue! :-) /me is waiting for PHP6 ;-)

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Antti Holvikari