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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:54:33 +0100
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To: Crypto Compress <cryptocompress@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unicode strings?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Crypto Compress
<cryptocompress@googlemail.com> wrote:

>> ICU Text Access allows other formats, such as UTF-8 or non-contiguous
>> UTF-16 strings, to be placed in a UText wrapper and then passed to ICU
>> services.

This is running in circle and does not really help to move forwards...

Lester has a point with the UTF-8 testing. I am almost done with the
tests code and will publish it soonish.

Also I do not get your argument earlier in this discussion saying that
we should not implement objects or pseudo-objects for unicode support.
where is the problem? It can work with existing functions as well,
does not break BC, does not introduce weird syntax that prevents code
from running in 5.x and 6.x (u"foo" will f.e.). The more I look at it,
the more I think it is the way.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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