First, GB18030 is another Unicode transformation format just like UTF-8. Second, Chinese government demands softwares in China must support GB18030.
Please read this article in wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_18030 Butrus Damaskus wrote: > Hm, I just wonder why yet another encoding. Shouldn't unicode be > enough for every one? > > 2010/1/28 KITAZAKI Shigeru <shigeru_kitaz...@cybozu.co.jp>: > > We made a patch to add a mbfilter for GB18030 encoding for PHP-5.3.1. > > Please take a look at our blog: > > 〓http://developer.cybozu.co.jp/oss/2010/01/php-mbstring-pa.html > > > > We would appreciate if you take this patch into the mainline. > > > > BTW, our blog has various other patches for PHP in addition to this one. > > Feel free to mail me if you are interested in some of them. > > > > Regards, > > KITAZAKI Shigeru <shigeru_kitaz...@cybozu.co.jp> > > > > -- > > PHP Unicode & I18N Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
