Hi Asgeir Frimannsson, you wrote:

> Michael Wallner wrote:
> 
>>> Hope that solves your problem...
>> 
>> Well yes, but it raises another obstacle :) Is the EUR symbol the
>> only difference between latin1 and latin9?  It seems at a quick
>> glance.
> 
> It's a few other characters too.. not many though.

Do you know a reference?

> 
> 
>> Is l0t3k still developing ext/i18n? While google'ing I read
>> something that he also implemented an ICU parser.  pearfr-org is
>> not reachable and the my userland ICU parser is extremely slow
>> (would need to integrate a cache).
> 
> Yes, this is a very interesting project indeed. There are no changes
> in cvs since october though, but I emailed him some days ago, and he
> said he'd started working on it again. From browsing the code it
> seems like it's quite a lot of the ICU functionality allready
> implemented.

URL? 
http://www.voltex.jp/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/php-i18n/#dirlist 
seems to be outdated, and the checkout script is broken, too.

> What he's been doing is using the c++ implementation of ICU and
> mapping it to php classes, so he's not actually creating the parsers
> or anything, just porting the whole library, similar to what's done
> with SimpleXML. Which is a very very good idea, and something php
> really needs.

Yeah, even better!  PHP would really need it, but browsing some
mail archives it seems that he didn't get much feedback...

BTW: he => she? http://www.l0t3k.org/

Regards,
-- 
Michael - < mike(@)php.net >

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