Re: [RFC] Unicode Text Processing

On 15.12.2022 at 16:34, Derick Rethans wrote: > 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. | As the implementation requires ICU, this would also mean that PHP will | depend on the ICU library. Our current stance is that a minimal PHP should be buildable without requiring any "non-standard" libraries; this is the reason why we bundle PCRE. If we wanted to stick with that policy, we would need to bundle ICU, what might not be the best idea – it's generally not great to have bundled libraries which are still maintained outside of php-src, and especially for such huge libraries. -- Christoph M. Becker