PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download

Re:PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download by phplovesong on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:40PM (#44513450)

Still no unicode support? What in the hell are the devs doing? Looks like they still force that nasty mb_real_uppercase and pals on you.

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Re:PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download by syndeo on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:00PM (#44514197)

Maybe waiting for a major version, perhaps 9.0… hopefully.

Not that I have any skin in that game anymore; I moved my stack from PHP years ago.

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Re:PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download by kassner on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:57PM (#44514675)

What do you mean? It was released with PHP 6.0 /s

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Re:PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download by phendrenad2 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @11:09AM (#44521930)

And yet millions of websites built on PHP happily serve unicode content to billions of users. Strange.

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Re:PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download by phplovesong on Sunday July 13, 2025 @03:48PM (#44553064)

I have seen many cases of weird casing on web pages (not critical, but usually embarrasing), not knowing the backend tech, but i always hard bet its php.

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Re:PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download by phendrenad2 on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @12:53AM (#44567929)

I do think it's an issue, but a much, much smaller one than is immediately obvious. Most people aren't doing weird text processing on the fly in PHP.

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