[PEPr] +1 for Internationalization::I18N_UnicodeString

Harry Fuecks (http://pear.php.net/user/hfuecks) has voted +1 on the proposal for Internationalization::I18N_UnicodeString. Proposal information: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=131 Vote information: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-vote-show.php?id=131&handle=hfuecks Comment: Looks good and certainly something that's badly needed. One thing that seems a bit of a shame is including PEAR at the start: adds 1000ish lines of code to parse on every request just in case of error (which typically should be uncommon). I guess most users of this will expect a lightweight set of tools, comparable to the native string functions with minimal processing overhead. A nice way to get around this when raising errors is to conditionally include PEAR on error, rather than at the start e.g.; } else { require_once 'PEAR.php'; return PEAR::raiseError('Malformed UTF-8 string'); } When checking for errors, that's trickier but I imagine users would prefer something more suspect like; if(strtolower(get_class($this->_unicode))=='pear_error') given it saves those lines of code. -- Sent by PEPr, the automatic proposal system at http://pear.php.net