On 15.12.2022 at 16:34, Derick Rethans wrote:

> I have just published an initial draft of the "Unicode Text Processing"
> RFC, a proposal to have performant unicode text processing always
> available to PHP users, by introducing a new "Text" class.
>
> You can find it at:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unicode_text_processing
>
> I'm looking forwards to hearing your opinions, additions, and
> suggestions — the RFC specifically asks for these in places.

| As the implementation requires ICU, this would also mean that PHP will
| depend on the ICU library.

Our current stance is that a minimal PHP should be buildable without
requiring any "non-standard" libraries; this is the reason why we bundle
PCRE.  If we wanted to stick with that policy, we would need to bundle
ICU, what might not be the best idea – it's generally not great to have
bundled libraries which are still maintained outside of php-src, and
especially for such huge libraries.

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Christoph M. Becker

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