Re: Unicode support

On 14 October 2014 10:04, Aleksey Tulinov <aleksey.tulinov@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I can't find any recent discussion in this mailing list on this topic, i > think that most close one is > > http://grokbase.com/t/php/php-internals/143b6aevsp/unicode-strings. > I was > also reading papers like that: > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/2618358/application-development/php-5-4-emerges-from-the-collapse-of-php-6-0.html > > Latter is referring to difficulties like "excess memory usage" and "rewrite > the language". I'm developing an open-source Unicode implementation library > (nunicode), and it doesn't consume any heap at all, it also works on native > binary strings, as PHP does. Hence i thinks that maybe it could help with at > least these two problems. On the face of it, this implies a rather large performance hit and a tendency to overflow the stack much more readily, do you have any details on these elements? > But i hardly understand if my work is even applicable here. My library is a > rather pragmatic implementation, it's conformant to Unicode 7.0 and ISO/IEC > 14651, but it does not implement the whole Unicode specification. > > I would appreciate if someone would point me to a good read or explain > collective opinion on this topic. I'm basically interested in the following > questions: The only additional thing I can find quickly is something Pierre put together earlier this year, when PHP6 (now 7) discussions were started: https://wiki.php.net/ideas/php6/unicode > 1. Is there a need for more Unicode support in PHP? > 2. What is currently missing in that regard? > 3. Is this a good place to ask such questions? My *personal* view on questions 1 and 2 is "no" and "nothing" respectively, but I think this is not a popular opinion (and those answers are a vast oversimplification of the issues). This is certainly a good place to ask those questions, though. > Thanks. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >