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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] IntlChar class and intl_char_*() functions
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

>> While playing around with Andrea's unicode literals syntax proposal, I
>> was reminded of just how little of ICU is exposed.  I've put up a
>> short proposal for adding IntlChar exporting these APIs as static
>> methods (with a matching non-oop interface).
>>
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/intl.char

Looking into this and also reading the \u{} proposal, I also thought -
do we have a programmatic way of doing what \u would do? I.e. if we
assume $x holds an Unicode codepoint value (i.e., an integer) do we have
a good built-in way to generate the corresponding utf8 sequence?
If not, then I think this class may be a good place to put such a
function in.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
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