Re: Re: Alternative mbstring implementation using ICU
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:37:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Alternative mbstring implementation using ICU | ||
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Hi!
Aren't there any interests on this? If you think PHP 6 is gonna cover all of the functionality that allegedly-cruft mbstring currently provides, that is almost wrong :-pCould you please explain why PHP6 doesn't provide what mbstring is doing? I.e, let's go over the functions: mb_parse_str - since detecting encoding doesn't work per RFC, what is the usefulness of this function? Wouldn't PHP 6 do the same with correct charset? mb_str* - shouldn't you in 6 just convert them to unicode and do all string operations with Unicode strings? Also, in 5 isn't there some intersection with grapheme_* functions? mb_output_handler - shouldn't setting the proper encoding in 6 do the same job? mb_convert_encoding - don't we already have a number of functions that do encoding conversions? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com