Re: 4.0.6

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:47:21PM +0900, Rui Hirokawa wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:37:14 +0300 > Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote: > > > At 09:35 PM 4/30/2001 +0900, Rui Hirokawa wrote: > > > > >Andi, > > > > > >We have plan to add ext/jstring which is a japanese string extension module > > >to php-4.0.6. > > >Is there any problem to add this module on CVS tree now ? > > > > No I don't see a problem with this but please do it quickly. 4.0.6 has > > already gone a long way since we started RC'ing 4.0.5 and I would like to > > start RC'ing it pretty soon. You should probably also copy > > dotnet/EXPERIMENTAL to your directory until it becomes completely stable. > > I did. > > > > > By the way, do you think jstring is the right name? Is it only for Japanese? > > It includes some functions for japanese,but some functions are not > only for japanese. > For example, this module supports encoding conversion functionality between > Unicode and some other encodings like ISO-8859-X. > Currently, it includes encoding conversion filter for japanese and ISO-8859-X, > but it is relatively easy task to add another conversion filter for some other > language. > > I believe this module is small step for PHP internationalization. > I think the name 'jstring' is right name now because it is existing > for japanese string function now. > But 'i18n' or 'wchar' or 'i18n-ja' are also the candidate for > the name. It would be very good to join this features with existing iconv extension rather than generate new extensions. -- Sincerely yours, Alexander Bokovoy The Midgard Project | ALT Linux Team | Minsk Linux Users Group www.midgard-project.org | www.altlinux.ru | www.minsk-lug.net -- You won't skid if you stay in a rut. -- Frank Hubbard