hi,

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Tex Texin <texte...@xencraft.com> wrote:
> mbstring can call out to icu to do the work.

Right, pls read the thread, that's Moriyoshi is working on. But can we
do it in a minor release? I don't think so.

Cheers,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre....@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:11 PM
> To: Tex Texin
> Cc: Moriyoshi Koizumi; KITAZAKI Shigeru; php-i18n@lists.php.net;
> intern...@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring
>
> hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Tex Texin <texte...@xencraft.com> wrote:
>> Since ICU supports many conversions, including gb18030, and is regularly
>> updated and is already a part of php, it makes no sense to include
>> individually written conversions. ICU also gets considerable testing and
>> review.
>>
>> Conversions should all be driven through icu.
>
> In an ideal world yes. But in our not so ideal world mbstring is still
> here, is still used in many places inside PHP and I think it makes
> sense too add more encoding if there is a need for them.
>
> However it is obvious that the mid/long term goal should be to replace
> it completely with ICU.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Pierre
>
> @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org
>
>



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Pierre

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