If you haven't posted this to php-dev yet, please do. - Colin
"Carl W. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > About a year and a half ago I developed code to enable PHP3 to support > Unicode using ICU. These was some initial interest but it died fast so I > did not look into what it would take to develop a PHP4 solution. The > original problem was adding UTF-16 (UCS-2) support to PHP. In the mean time > I have perfected the ICU interface code and have recently made it available > as open source code. > > It is thread safe cross-platform and not only supports all forms of Unicode > (UTF-8, UTF-16 & UTF-32) but it supports code page data with the same code. > It is great for browsers because it can use the same functions to process > code page and Unicode data dynamically so that the code does not change if > you are using UTF-8 for one browser and EUC-JP for another. It has new > functions to make PHP charset handling easier. No there is no need to add > 16 bit data types to PHP. > > I added the Unicode support to PHP3 but making it a semi-resident module. > It also required some minor changes to the HTTP header processing. With the > new xIUA code the changes to PHP are far less. It also make PHP thread safe > in that each thread can have different locales. This is something that > setlocale does not provide. > > Carl > > > -- 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]
