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Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:37:30 +0200
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To: Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] BreakIterator
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> So would you have RuleBasedBreakIterator renamed IntlRuleBasedBreakIterator
> too?...

Ideally we would yes, while they are less common and less aimed to be
seen as part of another API.

>I find it very hard to believe that "BreakIterator" is "a very
> common name", but I'm open to evidence that points otherwise. This argument
> could maybe be made for 'Transliterator', which was added in 5.4.

Transliterator is not confusing as "BreakIterator", sorry.

I would not care much if there was some longer not so confusing/common
names. But with that one, the risk to conflict with existing may be
too high to do not be discussed.

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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