Re: Multi byte Support

Thanks for your response > Zeev At 00:57 99/03/30, Zeev Suraski wrote: > As a project that involves a lot of work on the language API and engine, > I'd personally delay it for now. Mostly all the code for the new API and > engine are laid out for PHP 4 already (even though it'll take a while > before its finalized and publically released). That means that any work > you invest in Japanizing PHP3 will have to be remade from scratch for PHP4, > that will start hitting the shelves in mid 1999 (estimated). > Of course, it may be worth it to you to have PHP3 working for the time > being, until PHP4 is proved to be stable and all. If it isn't, though, I'd > simply wait. D'oh! Well, that's good that I asked you guys before getting my head too deap into I18N work. After discussing with other developers, I think we will still go ahead and try to merge at least the current Japanese patch with possible accommadation of other multi-byte charactors. This way we will have a stable PHP3 with Japanese support for a while. We will not thrash the core engine in depth or try something innovative for now. I think we will reserve that energey for PHP4. Heck, we might not even do that if PHP4 doesn't play with the 8th bit. I think PHP3 as is, passes 8bit charactor okay, so as long as that's promised, our work is only involved with conversions of various charactor codes. Until PHP4 is out, we will most likely spend some time to refine the multibyte regex library or other charactor conversion functions. If possible, we would like to see the engine layout when it's finalized. That way, we would have a head start on that. If not, well, we will just wait. :) Thanks in advance. Hiro PS If any Chinese or Korean developers are out there, contact me! //--- Hironori Sato --------------------------------------- KB9HAD --- // satoh@jpnnet.com http://staff.jpnnet.com/satoh/ // Japanese Network http://www.jpnnet.com/ -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net