Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2(PHP_5_3) / Zend.m4 zend.c zend_compile.c zend_globals.h zend_highlight.c zend_language_scanner.c
zend_language_scanner.h zend_language_scanner.l zend_language_scanner_defs.h zend_multibyte.h

Hi Pierre, Thank you for the comment. I also replied for internals@ to explain the current status. My implementation of zend multibyte for PHP 5.3 is still in experimental because I am not re2c/flex expert, but I hope that it is useful for the PHP users using multibyte encoding. Rui On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:44:33 +0200 "Pierre Joye" <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi Rui, > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Rui Hirokawa <rui_hirokawa@ybb.ne.jp> wrote: > > > > The tests stuff for zend-multibyte are already existing > > in Zend/tests/multibyte/*.phpt. > > > > In my understanding, the reason of removing zend_multibyte stuff > > from PHP 5.3 is incompatibility with re2c. > > The reason why multibyte was not tested, implenented or available > after the re2c move is the complete lack of tests, real examples, etc. > > There was a discussion on internals where many persons ask for real > use cases of this feature. I don't remember anyone having posted at > least one use case (last time I check was on Friday). > > If you have other use cases for a couple of charsets, please commit > them as well. Maybe Scott or Marcus can also point you to to their > requests or ask for specific cases. > > > Removing multibyte encoding support from PHP 5.3 will cause > > the severe incompatibility problem with the older PHP 5.x. > > Indeed, and it is one of the last issues we have now for 5.3. > > It would be nice to have a post on internals about this issue and its > status, to explain the changes or what has to be done(not everyone > follows the Zend cvs list). > > Thanks for your work :) > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org -- Rui Hirokawa <rui_hirokawa@ybb.ne.jp>