Jan Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote: > > 1. libiconv is basically far better at transliteration than glibc iconv. > > > > 2. glibc iconv supports yet another external option. > > See http://bugs.php.net/20809 > > > > Hope this helps. > > Not really, but thanks for your answer. > > It still isn't clear to me which conversion method uses which library. > If I understand it correctly, mbstring doesn't use an external library > but has its own conversion routines.
As for mbstring, that's virtually true. > iconv probably uses glibc's iconv? Depends on your configuration. On glibc available systems, --with-iconv (without any parameters) will lead the iconv extension to use glibc's iconv implementation. And if libiconv has been installed in the prefix "/usr/local" and PHP is configured with --with-iconv=/usr/local, libiconv will be used by the iconv extension. Please see the manual for detail as it has been updated since 4.3.0. > Does recode use the libiconv library? libiconv(libcharset) is bundled and used by recode internally. > If so, do you (or others) recommend the following chain to convert > between charsets? > recode - iconv - mbstring I don't so much recommend using recode because it's known to not work in a threaded environment. Moriyoshi -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
