On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 17:38, Moriyoshi Koizumi <m...@mozo.jp> wrote:
>> > I'd love to see my brand-new mbstring implementation in the release.
>> > Dropping mbstring completely won't be any good because lots of
>> > applications rely on it, but I don't really want to maintain the funky
>> > library bundled with it.
>>
>> Thats actually one of the ideas we had on IRC.
>> That mbstring patch and more ext/intl features should be enough to
>> solve "the unicode problem".
>
> Sorry, but that is not true. intl and mbstring can provide functionality
> to deal with UTF 8 string manipulation functions, they can not provide
> proper Unicode support. Proper Unicode support is *not* only just
> dealing with UTF-8 strings. Proper Unicode support includes dealing with
> file streams, with different encodings, with localiztion, with sorting,
> with locales, with formatting numbers. Offloading this to extensions
> makes Unicode support an add-on hack, and not a language feature. I am
> not saying that intl and mbstring aren't *useful*, but they definitely
> do not solve "the unicode problem".
>
I think unicode should only care for string handling. Formatting
numbers should not be the thing that unicode cares. Unicode is a
standard for text, not for text or number formatting.
Back to the days we don't have unicode, the number formatting have
already existed. It even exists when computer was not invented.
That is same for sorting.
When we think about Unicode, we should think about those really
related to Unicode,like file system. Number formatting and sorting are
other things which intl cares.
For the unicode, I think we should implement something like:
$chars=new mchar($bytes,$bytes_encoding);
echo $chars;//output encoding
foreach ($chars as $char) {
echo $char;//output single utf-16/utf-8 char (depends on default
output encoding)
}
echo $chars->bytes('gbk');
$chars->outputEncoding('gbk');
echo $chars;
ini_set('mchar_output_encoding','gbk');
echo $chars;
ini_set('mchar_filesystem_encoding','gbk');
echo $chars->filepath();
> regards,
> Derick
>
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