Re: Status of Multibyte support in PHP

The bugs I saw were just the result of a quick search for multibyte, or more --enable-zend-multibyte: http://bugs.php.net/search.php?search_for=--enable-zend- multibyte&boolean=0&limit=10&order_by=&direction=ASC&cmd=display&status=Open&php_os=&phpver=&assign=&author_email=&bug_age=0 A few relevant ones filed in the last month come up... Al On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:27 +0900, Masaki Fujimoto wrote: > Hello, > > the option is, to handle following issues (though I've been away > for months... :( > > * parsing scripts written in flex-unfriendly encodings > (e.g. Shift_JIS, BIG-5, etc) > * parsing scripts containing BOM (Byte Order Mark) > * converting encoding of each script to one "internal" encoding > * parsing scripts written in wide characters (like UTF-16) > -- experimental > > in short, this option enables Zend Engine II to parse scripts > written in various encodings. however, these features apparently > cause some performance loss comapring to simple parsing, so I think > this option will remains one of additional features. > > anyway, would please tell me the id of the bugs you mentioned? as I > stated, I always take care not to do any harm to the other codes, so > of course I'll fix them ASAP if it's caused by my option. > > regards, > Masaki Fujimoto > > The Message From Al Baker on Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:13:06 -0500: > > What is the "--enable-zend-multibyte" configuration option used for > > then? > > > > I've noticed a few bug reports where this option was the culprit. > > > > Al > > > > On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 11:50 -0700, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > Adam, > > > > > > That link is in the History section of the Zend Engine II section. We left > > > it and our original RFC there so that people can take a look but PHP 5 has > > > changed very much since then. > > > > > > Andi > > > > > > At 07:08 PM 8/30/2004 +0800, Adam Q wrote: > > > >Actually I noticed that the Zend Engine 2 page [1] mentions > > > >"Internationalization" as a _new_ feature of PHP 5... > > > >Has there been big changes to the way PHP5 handles i18n? > > > > > > > >[1] > > > >http://www.zend.com/zend/zend-engine-summary.php > > > > > > > >Thanks, > > > >Adam > > > > > > > >On 30/08/2004, at 2:11 PM, Derick Rethans wrote: > > > > > > > >>On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Al Baker wrote: > > > >> > > > >>>So, all the mb_* functions will have the experimental removed? I see a > > > >>>few that still have it, or is that just the mirrors not up to date yet? > > > >> > > > >>I'd go for the iconv() functions as you need to external extension for > > > >>this in PHP 5 (it's enabled by default). > > > >> > > > >>Derick > > > >> > > > >>-- > > > >>Derick Rethans > > > >>http://derickrethans.nl | > > > >>http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org > > > >> > > > >>-- > > > >>PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > > >>To unsubscribe, visit: > > > >>http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > >-- > > > >PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > > >To unsubscribe, visit: > > > >http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > Masaki Fujimoto > fujimoto@php.net >