Re: [RFC] UString

Hi Lester, On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 28/02/15 06:48, Joe Watkins wrote: > > This is just a quick note to announce my intention to ready this RFC > > for voting next week. > > Since there is nothing in this which needs any changes to the core then > surly it simply needs to exist in pecl until such time as a proper > replacement for unicode in core strings has been addressed? Since it > will still require intl to provide those areas it does not support, and > I question if we really need to provide yet another encoding converter. > > A unicode string handler that just handles UTF8 strings may be yet > another stepping stone, but it still falls short of beings able to > handle all of the internationalization problems and is simply an > alternate to mbstring so one either runs both, or sit down and convert > all the third party libraries to eliminate mbstring. > > Like http extension, it's not essential that it's loaded by default, and > leaving it in pecl allows development outside that of the core? Although it seems current code does not have code like GMP. I'm sure we'll have this before release. i.e. $new = $some_ustring . 'abc'; // $new is UString object To implement feature like this, it cannot be PECL. My only concern for this RFC performance. It's loosely integrated into PHP core, it may affect efficiency. I suppose other people are working on simple and tighter integration into core. Any comments on this? Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net