Re: 4.0.6

I am also one of the authors of ext/iconv module. iconv module is only for encoding translation but jstring (renaming to mbstring) is for general multibyte string handling fucntions. The encoding translation is one of functionalities of mbstring. I think rather iconv module should be merged into mbstring in the future. On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:53:11 +0300 Alexander Bokovoy <ab@avilink.net> wrote: > 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. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Rui Hirokawa <louis@cityfujisawa.ne.jp> maintainer of japanese PHP manual <hirokawa@php.net>