Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:92283 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 3132 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2016 09:04:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Apr 2016 09:04:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:37664] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CC/64-12455-A0D5F075 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 05:04:11 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E575DEFB1; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:04:07 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:04:07 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Sara Golemon cc: PHP internals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] IntlCharsetDetector From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, Sara Golemon wrote: > With a light push from Stas, I've decided to go ahead and put up > IntlCharsetDetector for discussion. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/intl.charset-detector > > I'm still not personally convinced this API is trustworthy enough, but > it's worth a formal discussion period at least. The RFC itself looks fine. I still believe that it's too easy to just rely on the charset that it returns. I know there is a confidence factor, but you know how lazy we are :). Unless it's absolutely clear that it is merely a very badly educated guess, I think I shall be voting no. cheers, Derick