Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:12448 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 92143 invoked by uid 1010); 28 Aug 2004 16:26:33 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 83268 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2004 16:24:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO colo.lerdorf.com) (66.198.51.121) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 28 Aug 2004 16:24:30 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.104] (c-24-6-200-247.client.comcast.net [24.6.200.247]) by colo.lerdorf.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Debian-10) with ESMTP id i7SGORmH012016; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:24:27 -0700 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:24:29 -0700 (PDT) X-X-Sender: rasmus@t42p To: Moriyoshi Koizumi cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1093637721.6464.11.camel@localhost> <1093649927.6464.14.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP From: rasmus@php.net (Rasmus Lerdorf) On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote: > Maybe sorts of character classes don't work as you expect, because > they lack comprehensive collation support that fully conforms to the > Unicode > specification. It's stable I think, but actually not complete yet. ICU has gotten a lot more modular these days, so it may be possible to pick out smaller pieces of it to address things like this. Last time we looked at it some 4+ years ago, it was a huge all-or-nothing beast. There was also an icu extension proposed on pecl-dev recently. -Rasmus