| Re: What *tasks* are hard for PHP? [message #171977 is a reply to message #171971] |
Mon, 24 January 2011 19:20   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Captain Paralytic wrote:
> For instance, I had no idea that it was hard to do Unicode in php. I
> wish you had told me that before I found it so easy to do Unicode in
> php, because I'd have found something even easier!
Sarcasm aside, you have to admit that *native* support of Unicode is lacking
from PHP while it has been implemented in other languages that are
frequently used on the Web. This does lead to a number of problems between
the different layers of PHP-based web applications, and with porting
applications from one server to another. BTDT.
So if the OP is referring to that fact in their unique way, it is fair to
say that "doing Unicode" is obviously *harder* to do in PHP than in some
other languages (if not impossible with regard to the language tokens),
because you have to do any necessary string conversion yourself, and you
have to stick to US-ASCII-compatible identifiers (an issue that was supposed
to be fixed with PHP 6, more than a decade after e.g. ECMAScript managed to
do it, not to mention Perl and Python):
<http://news.php.net/php.internals/47120>
PointedEars
--
Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are
positively harmful for cross-browser scripting.
-- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7(at)news(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk> (2004)
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