Re: Alternative mbstring implementation using ICU

On Jul 30, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:

Implemented functions: - mb_ereg() - mb_ereg_replace()

as ereg functions are deprecated in 5.3, are these still needed?

these have nothing in common with "those" ereg functions. these are based on onuguruma regex library http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/

I find Oniguruma to be, in general, a pared-down and less-useful version of the PCRE we already have. Given that PCRE has full support for UTF-8, and that there's nothing you can do with Oniguruma that you can't also practically do with PCRE (to the best of my knowledge), I think it would be best for PHP to standardize on a single regexp library, rather than offering competing and confusing options. Killing off POSIX syntax was a step in that direction, and I see no reason not to take the rest of the steps. If Oniguruma were offered as a PECL extension, I would think that perfectly reasonable, but I don't think it belongs in core. -- Gwynne