Re: Unicode support

On 14 Oct 2014, at 10:04, Aleksey Tulinov <aleksey.tulinov@gmail.com> wrote: > 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: > > 1. Is there a need for more Unicode support in PHP? Yes. > 2. What is currently missing in that regard? Unicode string support. > 3. Is this a good place to ask such questions? Yes. If you want to see a pragmatic, actually working, work-in-progress attempt at better PHP unicode support, see this: https://github.com/krakjoe/ustring It would add a UString class to PHP for Unicode strings. This would make Unicode text manipulation much easier than it is now. And both internal and userland code which accepts strings would already be compatible as it has a __toString method, but new code could also choose to accept UStrings directly. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/