Re: Re: [php6] Unicode support, options?

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > The bit I'm still missing here is 'operations not implemented in ICU'? > As soon as conversions are required then speed is always going to be > compromised, but where the platform is already UTF-8 based, which is a > growing situation, then all we are looking for is to handle UTF-8 strings > quickly. For the best performance conversions can simply be avoided. So I'm > currently looking at conversion as a secondary problem - probably less > important than case! - and just trying to identify what is missing from > ICU's UTF-8 that needs to be added? yes. And to see if what is available is "fast enough". > It may well be that windows is a special case that needs it's own conversion > layer, but that should not form part of any core upgrade. It is not needed > for many installations? Sorry if I was not clear earlier. No matter what we do, we will have to convert to or from UTF-8 for all file related APIs on Windows anyway. But that will happen before 6, so not really a unicode problem in this case, more a bug fix to bring windows in line with linux, about UTF-8 paths support (and longer paths), but that's a different topic. I do not understand what you mean by "not form part of any core upgrade". Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org