Re: i18n patch for PHP 4

Hello, sounds like an interesting thing for PHP 5! I'm pretty sure more like this can be implemented to make mb encodings better supported. Derick On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Masaki Fujimoto wrote: > Hello, > > The attached diffs and two new files (they should be in Zend/) are the > one suggestion for i18n (== internationalization) of PHP 4. > > This patch enables PHP to: > > - parse scripts written in encoding called Shift JIS. > (and have potential to handle other encodings, like BIG-5, UCS-4, etc.) > - add a "mbstring.script_encoding" directive to php.ini, which tells > encoding-scheme of the scripts to PHP. > - convert encoding-scheme of PHP scripts to the encoding defined using > "mbstring.internal_encoding" directive in php.ini. > > I know most of you (esp. who are using single byte encoding scheme > everyday) are nothing to do with these features, and feel these features > completely unnecessary. But let me tell you followings: > > - this patch can't do *any* harm without a '--enable-zend-multibyte' > option (almost all of changes are #ifdef-ed). > - this patch has already presented and evaluated in japan, and well > appreciated. > - again, those features make japanese (and the people who use > multibyte-encoding) happy. > > I hope that you feel this patch acceptable:) > > > Regards, > > Masaki Fujimoto > <fujimoto@php.net> > <fujimoto@studio.co.jp> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - derick@php.net All your branches are belong to me! SRM: Site Resource Manager - www.vl-srm.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------