Re: [RFC] Unicode Text Processing

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 12:34 PM Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I have just published an initial draft of the "Unicode Text Processing" > RFC, a proposal to have performant unicode text processing always > available to PHP users, by introducing a new "Text" class. > > You can find it at: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unicode_text_processing > > I'm looking forwards to hearing your opinions, additions, and > suggestions — the RFC specifically asks for these in places. > > cheers, > Derick > I appreciate the work behind this RFC. Although I can't comment much on the utility itself as I never really used ext-intl or much of UTF-8/16 stuff, I think PHP lacks A LOT of built-in classes to make matters simpler and welcoming. Sure, anybody in userland could write a class, but that leads to lots of implementations and an overwhelming amount of choices to be made. If this class can cover 80% of the use-case, folks can extend it to build their remaining 20% advanced use-case and PHP becomes easier. I really look forward to more basic utility-classes built-in and ready to go. -- Marco Deleu