Re: [PEAR-QA] Re: Numbers_Words enconding

Hi all,


> > Having each driver at a specific encoding is a chaos IMO so I
> > suggest that we move everything to UTF-8. any thoughts ?
> I agree that having everything in UTF-8 would be great, but indeed as 
> Christian pointed out, it would represent a BC break. And AFAIK PHP 
> doesn't deal with Unicode well yet, so probably it's not a good idea
> to push users to use UTF-8, when PHP itself is not ready for it.
> 
> See also http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16732

PHP not supporting unicode is untrue, at least for our case. It's the
user's task to take care that input data and output data don't mix
encodings.
However, we still have he BC break problem.

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Christian Weiske

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