Re: Converting "\u00F4" style characters

Michael Wallner wrote: >>> Well yes, but it raises another obstacle :) Is the EUR symbol the >>> only difference between latin1 and latin9? It seems at a quick >>> glance. >> >> It's a few other characters too.. not many though. > > Do you know a reference? http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/ISO%208859-15 >> >> >>> Is l0t3k still developing ext/i18n? While google'ing I read >>> something that he also implemented an ICU parser. pearfr-org is >>> not reachable and the my userland ICU parser is extremely slow >>> (would need to integrate a cache). >> >> Yes, this is a very interesting project indeed. There are no changes >> in cvs since october though, but I emailed him some days ago, and he >> said he'd started working on it again. From browsing the code it >> seems like it's quite a lot of the ICU functionality allready >> implemented. > > URL? > http://www.voltex.jp/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/php-i18n/#dirlist > seems to be outdated, and the checkout script is broken, too. > >> What he's been doing is using the c++ implementation of ICU and >> mapping it to php classes, so he's not actually creating the parsers >> or anything, just porting the whole library, similar to what's done >> with SimpleXML. Which is a very very good idea, and something php >> really needs. > > Yeah, even better! PHP would really need it, but browsing some > mail archives it seems that he didn't get much feedback... Yeah, i did a search, and it's kind-of sad that it didn't get more feedback, since it would have brought php a very long step towards proper i18n. > BTW: he => she? http://www.l0t3k.org/ oops, sorry about that. one should never assume... asgeir