Re: [PHP-I18N] Unicode support with UString abstraction layer

I would suggest changing the terminology here. A "string" is quite 
simply an array of bytes, with no intrinsic meaning or encoding. This 
"UString" is something quite different, and giving it a similar name 
might cause confusion. I'd suggest calling it a "text" type.

Having distinct "string" and "text" types would aid in reminding people 
that strings are not, in fact, text, a fact which it can be difficult to 
grasp.

But perhaps that makes sense only to me.

On 31/08/12 13:20, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
> My modest proposal to provide Unicode support to PHP without the need to
> >>rewrite the whole engine and its libraries introducing the UString
> >>abstraction
> >>layer as a regular class, an with minimal support from the core engine.
> >>Basically, the UString class hides the internal implementation of the
> >>Unicode
> >>strings and allows to experiment with several solutions (UTF-8, UCS-2,
> >>UCS-4,
> >>...).