Re: Re: PHP 5.2.1RC3 Released
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:32:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PHP 5.2.1RC3 Released | ||
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Please do not confuse an encoding (UTF-8) with full locale information (which is what CLDR provides).
-Andrei
On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Pierre wrote:
On 1/25/07, Andrei Zmievski <andrei@gravitonic.com> wrote:Because with UTF-8, PCRE already knows the uppercase and lowercase equivalents, without having to rely on the POSIX locales.Yes, UTF-8 covers many aspects but does it know about words, white spaces (not sure if ws are always the same) and other locale specific issues? generally, not only pcre. Maybe it is more something for ICU directly, as you said later in this thread. --Pierre