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I really don't think it's worth taking this guy seriously. First he writes a worthless and inaccurate lambast of PHP, and now he's trying to "convert" people to

• damncabbage 14y ago
  > ... by telling us Unicode sucks. Could you tell us where he did this? (I didn't notice it on the first time through; he did say to use Unicode everywhere inside your code, though, and to not do anything rude like converting Unicode to ASCII by stripping non-latin1 characters.)
  • smacktoward 14y ago
    Right under the big bold "Unicode" header. The very next line is > Unicode sucks. This is a universal truth. (In fairness, I think what he's really getting at is that dealing with Unicode in languages that were created before it became ubiquitous sucks, not Unicode itself. But if you start off your discussion of Unicode with the statement that "Unicode sucks", you shouldn't be surprised if people think your beef is with Unicode rather than with the tools we use to deal with it.)
    • damncabbage 14y ago
      Point. Mind you, he follows that with: "(I’m lying. Dealing with encodings sucks. Unicode is great. It’s complicated. I’ll write about it later.)" I think I'll wait for the follow-up article.
• eevee 14y ago
  Who am I trying to convert? The article answers the question asked in the beginning—a question I've been asked several times since writing the PHP article.