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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unicode Text Processing
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

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On Thu, 15 Dec 2022, Sara Golemon wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 9:34 AM Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
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> > I have just published an initial draft of the "Unicode Text=20
> > Processing" RFC, a proposal to have performant unicode text=20
> > processing always available to PHP users, by introducing a new=20
> > "Text" class.
> >
> > You can find it at: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unicode_text_processing
> >
> > I'm looking forwards to hearing your opinions, additions, and=20
> > suggestions =E2=80=94 the RFC specifically asks for these in places.
> >

<snip>

> Question 2 is that class.  I know folks have been clammoring for a=20
> `String` class for some time and this actually fills that niche quite=20
> well.  A part of me wonders if we can overload it a little to provide=20
> a psuedo locale of "binary" so that users can, optionally, treat it=20
> like a more generalized String class in specific cases, storing a=20
> normal `char*` zend_string under the hood in that case.  Possibly as a=20
> specialzation tree.

An alternative could be to just have this as an implementation detail,=20
in case the associated locale/collation is C/root. Then nobody needs to=20
worry about it, *but* it would mean implementing everything twice. Which=20
I am not too keen on, especially because we have such a wide array of=20
operations on strings already.

cheers,
Derick

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