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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 10:04:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for Implementing Unicode in PHP
From: denials@gmail.com (Dan Scott)

Make sure you read the "PHP and Unicode: A Love at Fifth Sight"
presentation available from http://www.gravitonic.com/talks/ from the
May 2005 -- Andrei and Derick have been working towards this already.

On 6/3/05, Steven Wittens <steven@acko.net> wrote:
> Hi,
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> As a PHP user I'm sadly confronted daily with PHP's lack of proper
> Unicode support. PHP is rapidly falling behind the competition... as far
> as I know, Perl, Python, VBScript, Ruby all have good Unicode
> implementations. That PHP still doesn't have that after so many years
> sounds like there is a general lack of awareness about the issue from
> the core team and what to do about it.
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> I'm not a big shot C coder, but I do know a lot about encodings and
> Unicode, so I've outlined the big "Unicode and PHP" problem in an
> article, along with a proposal on how to tackle it:
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> http://www.acko.net/blog/unicode-in-php
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> It's a bit long, but then it's a complicated issue. I hope you guys find
> it informative or at least skim over the bold parts to see what is
> causing me and many others to tear my hair out in frustration and
> seriously consider alternatives.
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> Thanks,
> Steven Wittens
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> PS: Sorry if this has to go to PHP-I18N instead, but that list seems to
> be aimed at practical I18N problems.. not fundamental changes in the
> core. Internals seemed more appropriate for this.
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