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

hi, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Tex Texin <textexin@xencraft.com> wrote: > mbstring can call out to icu to do the work. Right, pls read the thread, that's Moriyoshi is working on. But can we do it in a minor release? I don't think so. Cheers, > -----Original Message----- > From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:11 PM > To: Tex Texin > Cc: Moriyoshi Koizumi; KITAZAKI Shigeru; php-i18n@lists.php.net; > internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 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 > > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org