What’s coming in PHP V6
developerWorks gibt einen Ausblick was PHP 6 bringen wird. Die beste Neuerung aus meiner Sicht: vernünftiger Unicode (UTF-8) Support!
PHP V6, which supports Unicode (UTF-8) natively, has Unicode support in the engine, in the extensions and in the API. PHP V6 handles all strings as Unicode, though support has been added to handle binary strings as a different type. In PHP V6, string literals are Unicode, Unicode identifiers are allowed, and functions understand Unicode text. PHP V6 has built-in support for converting between Unicode strings and other encodings when required, and supports reading from and writing to a UTF-8 file.