[TYPO3-50-general] UTF-16

[Joerg Schoppet]

Martin Ficzel wrote:
> Robert Lemke schrieb:
> 
>> What do you think? Use PHP6? Use UTF-16 for the PHP files or UTF-8?
> 
> if php6 has native utf-16 support i would use it but what is the
> relation to the cr?
> 
> - does jsr170 support utf-16
>    - if not what is worse
>      - convert the cr output from utf8 > utf16
>      - or working with utf8 php
>      - or will the typo3-cr be a utf16 fork of jsr70
> 
> when i googled for encoding and jsr 170 i found only utf8 but that means
> nothing since i dont know the jsr170-standard.
As I understand the discussion about jsr170/cr it is actually only a 
"Let's try it!". As I see, nobody definitely said "TYPO3 5.0 will use 
JSR 170/CR!", but more "TYPO3 5.0 will PERHAPS use JSR 170/CR!". Correct 
me if I'm wrong.

> 
> for me it's also ok to rely on a future version of php but that would
> make it even more necessary to supply a development virtual machine
> because not everey php developer is abled to compile php from the sources.
These steps are IMO actually in progress.

Joerg Schoppet