Re: Status of Multibyte support in PHP
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:24:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Status of Multibyte support in PHP | ||
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote:
> Maybe sorts of character classes don't work as you expect, because
> they lack comprehensive collation support that fully conforms to the
> Unicode
> specification. It's stable I think, but actually not complete yet.
ICU has gotten a lot more modular these days, so it may be possible to
pick out smaller pieces of it to address things like this. Last time we
looked at it some 4+ years ago, it was a huge all-or-nothing beast. There
was also an icu extension proposed on pecl-dev recently.
-Rasmus