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Posted Mar 25, 2010 16:48 UTC (Thu) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486)
In reply to: UTF-16 by ikm
Parent article: Resetting PHP 6

You see, no, I don't. I have other stuff in my life than doing proper support for some weird stuff no one will ever actually see or use in my program.

And what exactly makes you the final authority on using UTF?
While you may have no need to represent ancient Chinese characters, others may.
Just because you don't need it doesn't mean that others won't have use for it.
Your argument smacks of "640K should be enough for anyone" (misattributed to BillG).

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Posted Mar 25, 2010 17:06 UTC (Thu) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]

Oh, no no, I was only referring to my own private decisions. The original post stated the necessity for each and every one, and I disagreed. Others decide for themselves, of course.

p.s. And btw, you *can* represent ancient Chinese with UTF... The original post was probably referring to some much more esoteric stuff.