Re: ICU Extensions for PHP

"Tex Texin" <tex@yahoo-inc.com> wrote in message news:004c01c4bc75$a21c3690$3b3a91d8@tex... >>There was some discussion (Mar 2003) of ICU Extensions for PHP: >>http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200303/msg00656.html im the guilty party. >>I am interested to know if this was ever completed? well yes and no. yes, i have a working subset of ICU compiled into a PHP extension that currently compiles and runs under Windows (i havent had time to fix the *nix build). No, its nots not quite complete, since it is a bit of a hack. Fearing that ICU as a whole would constitute too much of a dependency requirement, i ported selected portions to C and wrapped it into an extension. The good thing is it requires only iconv as a dependency and implements about 19 common objects (e.g. UnicodeString, formatting classes, ResourceBundles). The bad thing is that with the fork, there is no way of keeping up with ICU's progress. I spoke with Derick Rethans and he has been given leave by his company to devote some resources to doing this properly, and since i have a bit of a headstart, i'll coordinate with him so we can have something usable by 5.1. Until then, if you'd like a crack at what i've got, just give me a shout.. l0t3k BTW - love your site. it was daily reading while working on the extension. Tex Texin