Hi,
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:01:38 +0200 "Per" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would be most interested in knowing the current status of multi-byte > character handling in PHP, and also some kind of forecast of when it is > expected to work in a stable manner. Currently, there is an experimental > module for this at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php. How stable > is it? Does it support all the "normal" string functions? I think mbstring is fairly stable now. I already removed ext/mbstring/EXPERIMENTAL from CVS tree. It doesn't support all string functions, but, it is very useful to build multi-byte enabled Web applications. mbstring has some multi-byte string handling functions shown in below, - character encoding conversion between Unicode and japanese encoding (EUC-JP,Shift_JIS,ISO-2022-JP), ISO-8859-1..9 - some string functions with multi-byte string compatibility strlen, substr, strpos, etc. - POST/GET/Cookie input character encoding detection and conversion to internal encoding. - output character encoding convertion. mbstring uses gerenal implementaion for multi-language support, but, currently it supports only japanese multi-byte encoding and Unicode, and some single byte encoding. PHP 4.0.6 is the first version of PHP 4 which has multi-byte support. In japan, almost PHP users are using PHP 4.0.6 with mbstring or japanese localized version of PHP 3 (called PHP-3.0.18-i18n). Limitations of mbstring are, - mbstring doesn't support multi-byte regex. (You can use mbregex extension.) - mbstring doesn't support all string functions. Native unicode support for PHP 4 is neccesary to make php-i18n. I hope Zend Engine 2/ PHP 5 (?) will support this functionality. -- ----------------------------------------------------- Rui Hirokawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
