Re: Proposal for Implementing Unicode in PHP

I couldn't agree with you more. This would be a great new feature for PHP 5.1 (which it probably won't be), or 5.2. Ron "Steven Wittens" <steven@acko.net> schreef in bericht news:8D.C1.12345.13F50A24@pb1.pair.com... > Hi, > > As a PHP user I'm sadly confronted daily with PHP's lack of proper > Unicode support. PHP is rapidly falling behind the competition... as far > as I know, Perl, Python, VBScript, Ruby all have good Unicode > implementations. That PHP still doesn't have that after so many years > sounds like there is a general lack of awareness about the issue from > the core team and what to do about it. > > I'm not a big shot C coder, but I do know a lot about encodings and > Unicode, so I've outlined the big "Unicode and PHP" problem in an > article, along with a proposal on how to tackle it: > > http://www.acko.net/blog/unicode-in-php > > It's a bit long, but then it's a complicated issue. I hope you guys find > it informative or at least skim over the bold parts to see what is > causing me and many others to tear my hair out in frustration and > seriously consider alternatives. > > Thanks, > Steven Wittens > > PS: Sorry if this has to go to PHP-I18N instead, but that list seems to > be aimed at practical I18N problems.. not fundamental changes in the > core. Internals seemed more appropriate for this.