Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring

2010-02-01 Thread Pierre Joye
Joye [mailto:pierre@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:11 PM > To: Tex Texin > Cc: Moriyoshi Koizumi; KITAZAKI Shigeru; php-i...@lists.php.net; > internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring > > hi, > > On

RE: [PHP-DEV] RE: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring

2010-02-01 Thread Tex Texin
-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring hi, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Tex Texin wrote: > Since ICU supports many conversions, including gb18030, and is regularly > updated and is already a part of php, it makes no sense to include > individually written conversions. ICU

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring

2010-02-01 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Tex Texin wrote: > Since ICU supports many conversions, including gb18030, and is regularly > updated and is already a part of php, it makes no sense to include > individually written conversions. ICU also gets considerable testing and > review. > > Conversions

[PHP-DEV] RE: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring

2010-02-01 Thread Tex Texin
Since ICU supports many conversions, including gb18030, and is regularly updated and is already a part of php, it makes no sense to include individually written conversions. ICU also gets considerable testing and review. Conversions should all be driven through icu. -Original Message- Fro

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring

2010-01-31 Thread Moriyoshi Koizumi
Kitazaki-san, First thank you for your effort. But, I am under the impression that the conversion table looks too huge to include in a distribution (>30MB). Is there any way to get this more compressed? BTW, I created an extension that is near-compatible with mbstring and based on ICU that of co

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring

2010-01-28 Thread KITAZAKI Shigeru
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.

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring

2010-01-28 Thread Butrus Damaskus
Hm, I just wonder why yet another encoding. Shouldn't unicode be enough for every one? 2010/1/28 KITAZAKI Shigeru : > 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 wou