Re: i18n patch for PHP 4

Hello, Derick, you're 100% right and we japanese started to discuss the specification of i18n in PHP 5 last week. And, we (at least Rui and me) will have a meeting about i18n with Zeev in this month. Thus, I've already focused on internationalization of PHP 5 (and ZE2) rather than PHP 4. Honestly speaking, the intension of my previous post was some kind of notification or ad of the multibyte-encodings, so that I think it is not important whether the patch is merged or not (of course it's better for me if it would be merged). Masaki On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:05:13 +0100 (CET) derick@php.net wrote: > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Masaki Fujimoto <fujimoto@php.net> <fujimoto@studio.co.jp>