I would like to thank both Carl W Brown and Rui Hirokawa for their instructive and clarifying replies.
I just now got this link sent to me from Avi Lewin: http://www.zend.com/zend/week/week58.php where it says: PHP Weekly Summary: A change of plans for PHP 4.0.7/4.1.0 releases, new Unicode support, Alternative syntax, Pctnl documentation, fix to ZIP extension and PayFlowPro for Win32. [15.OCT.2001] Sounds very promising! Thank you all! /Per Aronsson ----------- "Rui Hirokawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > 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]
