RE: [PHP-I18N] Re: ICU Extensions for PHP

Thanks for the comment on my site, it is nice to hear. I can't commit to helping out just yet, without knowing more about what is needed, but I am interested to know more about what you have, and perhaps also to stir up further interest in moving PHP&ICU forward. I would think that some mention of it on the ICU mail list and web site would bring some others around... tex -----Original Message----- From: l0t3k [mailto:cshmoove@bellsouth.net] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:31 PM To: php-i18n@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-I18N] 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 -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php