Re: Status of Multibyte support in PHP

Thanks for the confirmation. The experimental warning appears on any of the individual help files for mbstring (e.g. mb_ereg). Do you know if the regular expression support lets you match alpha and numeric content like you would normally? Al On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 05:52 +0900, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote: > Hi, > > On 2004/08/28, at 5:15, Al Baker wrote: > > I'm trying to find status on the multibyte support in PHP. The manual > > shows the functions in mbstring to be experimental and it's hard to > > find > > evidence of how stable it really is. > > Which manual says that mbstring is still experimental? :) it was marked > "not experimental" two years ago. > > No matter what that says, and no matter who says it's experimental, > it's been used for a fairly long time by lots of people and I've > never heard of a serious flaw / deficiency in its functionality. > > There are also some alternatives that'd be worth paying attention to: > > - PHP5 iconv extension > - php-i18n project led by l0t3k > > > Is this natively supported in PHP after 4.3.x? > > While the extension is there, PHP doesn't yet natively supports > multibyte > encodings in the sense that the language implementation always works > singlebyte-wise > and doesn't automagicallytake care of these fancy characters. > > Moriyoshi >