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>  -----Original Message-----

>  From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@[...].net]

>  Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:23 AM

>  To: Andi Gutmans

>  Cc: Andrei Zmievski; PHP Developers Mailing List

>  Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Removal of unicode_semantics

>  

>  

>  Scott is already working on this AFAIK. And like Andrei, I'd also be

>  against defaulting to binary strings.


Great. Dmitry can help out if needed. He'll be reviewing it anyway.

I understand you are against it but as we discussed on this list a few months ago we will ha
ve to see what reality delivers when people actually start migrating applications. It's not 
something we should decide at this point before we are any smarter. For now we can definitel
y keep "" as Unicode and we'll learn how that works during the alpha/beta cycles.
We do owe our users a feasible upgrade path whether it's with automated scripts or some othe
r way. As we figure that out it'll become more apparent what makes sense. 

Andi