Validate and Locales

Hi, [This is an-only-validate-thread-starter, as I can't email all of it's developers One by one, then I decided to post it to .dev, although it's a validate issue, But would be nice to get comments from other developers, especially ones who are Maintaining packages with plug-ins] We got some bug-reports which users ask us to add new chars to VALIDATE_ALPHA_LOWER and VALIDATE_ALPHA_UPPER[1][2], well as it's a valid request But the current structure of Validate is not very happy with such requests. I thought the best solution could be moving VALIDATE_ALPHA_LOWER and UPPER from two global constants to two class attributes which could be overwritten by locales. But it's not the best ATM because: I) We've some locales, which are not depended on main Validate, so they'll never Instantiate it. II) ATM We've some chars from languages which doesn't have a locale in Validate. The other way could be writing a Unicode (or simpler a UTF-8) plug-in for Validate Which handles such stuff. Ideas? Blames? P.S: We're going to release the first stable of Validate, soon after fixing this Issue and filling the docs gap, as it's functioning well in validating other stuff. [1] http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=9156 [2] http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=7648 Cheers, -- Amir Mohammad