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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unicode support
From: aleksey.tulinov@gmail.com (Aleksey Tulinov)

On 14/10/14 16:50, Andrea Faulds wrote:

> If you want to see a pragmatic, actually working, work-in-progress attempt at better PHP unicode support, see this: https://github.com/krakjoe/ustring
>
> It would add a UString class to PHP for Unicode strings. This would make Unicode text manipulation much easier than it is now. And both internal and userland code which accepts strings would already be compatible as it has a __toString method, but new code could also choose to accept UStrings directly.
>

Looking at it now. UString and repo linked in its description are very 
good read indeed. Thank you.