about users of japanese localized php3

Hi, >Hi, > >I remember there was a patch around for PHP 3.0.x which added some Japanese >support functions. >Anyone know how many Japanese actually used these functions and how many >are using Vanilla PHP? As far as I know, most of japanese Linux distributions like RedHat-6.2j/7.0j Linux or TurboLinux are shiped with japanese localized versions of PHP 3.0.x. As Mr.Sato said, it is nesserary to handle three kind of different encoding set 'shift_jis','euc-jp','iso2022-jp' (or 'utf-8') in japan. Because the exact encoding is unknown when php parser was started, automatic encoding renognition and encoding translation are neccessary in http input (post/get/cookie) parsing process. I think 'Vanilla' PHP 3/4 is not very useful for japanese. I know PHP 3 is obsolete now, but so many japanese PHP users contininue to use japanese localized PHP 3 (e.g. PHP-3.0.18-i18n-ja). Currently, I am working to make some patch for php4/main/php_variables.c to add the encoding translation capability using ext/jstring made by Mr. Tsukada supporting japanese characters handling functions. >Does Japanese actually work in a decent way with PHP? From the zillions of >Japanese sites I've seen running it I'd guess it works :) > >Andi -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Rui Hirokawa <louis@cityfujisawa.ne.jp> maintainer of japanese PHP manual <hirokawa@php.net>