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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:38:47 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP
From: ajb732@comcast.net (Al Baker)

Thanks for the confirmation.  The experimental warning appears on any of
the individual help files for mbstring (e.g. mb_ereg).

Do you know if the regular expression support lets you match alpha and
numeric content like you would normally?

Al

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 05:52 +0900, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2004/08/28, at 5:15, Al Baker wrote:
> > I'm trying to find status on the multibyte support in PHP.  The manual
> > shows the functions in mbstring to be experimental and it's hard to 
> > find
> > evidence of how stable it really is.
> 
> Which manual says that mbstring is still experimental? :) it was marked
> "not experimental" two years ago.
> 
> No matter what that says, and no matter who says it's experimental,
> it's been used for a fairly long time by lots of people and I've
> never heard of a serious flaw / deficiency in its functionality.
> 
> There are also some alternatives that'd be worth paying attention to:
> 
> - PHP5 iconv extension
> - php-i18n project led by l0t3k
> 
>  > Is this natively supported in PHP after 4.3.x?
> 
> While the extension is there, PHP doesn't yet natively supports 
> multibyte
> encodings in the sense that the language implementation always works 
> singlebyte-wise
> and doesn't automagicallytake care of these fancy characters.
> 
> Moriyoshi
>