Re: [DISCUSSION] Add locale and strength for grapheme functions

On Wed, 9 Jul 2025, youkidearitai wrote: > Hi, Internals > > I changed below the RFC. > - > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/grapheme_add_locale_for_case_insensitive > Pull request is below: > - https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/18792 > > Change point is below: > - Add a strength for grapheme_* functions > - Affect to all over the world characters, ex: Ideographic Variation > Sequence(IVS) > - Use Collator object const values. These settings are indeed important for these functions, but I can't get around the fact that it makes these APIs really cluttered and complicated — something that many functions in the grapheme_ / intl extension already suffer from. Is this API really the best way? > $locale parameter is not change anything. Because I could not find any way. It seems that I came to a similar conclusion, but locales are much more complicated than just languageCode_regionCode (for example, see https://github.com/derickr/php-text/blob/main/tests/text-contains.phpt#L25) You also don't really need a strength argument, as you can 'encode' that in the locale name, like: 'nb_NO-u-ks-primary' (I know, it's rather ugly and the list of options is vast: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-collation.html#Common_Settings cheers, Derick