Re: RE: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring

hi, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Tex Texin <textexin@xencraft.com> wrote: > Since ICU supports many conversions, including gb18030, and is regularly > updated and is already a part of php, it makes no sense to include > individually written conversions. ICU also gets considerable testing and > review. > > Conversions should all be driven through icu. In an ideal world yes. But in our not so ideal world mbstring is still here, is still used in many places inside PHP and I think it makes sense too add more encoding if there is a need for them. However it is obvious that the mid/long term goal should be to replace it completely with ICU. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org