Re: [Firebird-devel] ICU configuration

2014-02-27 Thread Lester Caine
Mark Rotteveel wrote: > I am not sure what you mean, but Firebird metadata is already unicode. The question is more 'how' ... I am using Firebird with UTF-8 data already ... via PHP ... but it is all a bit of a bodge due to the way PHP handles things. Processing Unicode data can be fun. Using IC

Re: [Firebird-devel] ICU configuration

2014-02-27 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:31:21 +, Lester Caine wrote: > There is currently a discussion on the PHP developer list re - Unicode. > PHP has > used ICU via extensions for some time, but always used the distributed > versions. > The current thoughts relate to making the core of PHP UTF-8 rather th

Re: [Firebird-devel] ICU configuration

2014-02-27 Thread Lester Caine
marius adrian popa wrote: > Here is the wiki page Marius It's not PHP's discussion that I'm asking about --- it's Firebird's usage of ICU and Unicode metadata --- since the parallel is very similar I'd like to influence the PHP choices in a manor that actually mirrors Firebird's, and the U_CHA

Re: [Firebird-devel] ICU configuration

2014-02-27 Thread marius adrian popa
Here is the wiki page https://wiki.php.net/ideas/php6/unicode and the php internals thread http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/85592 On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > There is currently a discussion on the PHP developer list re - Unicode. PHP > has > used ICU v

[Firebird-devel] ICU configuration

2014-02-27 Thread Lester Caine
There is currently a discussion on the PHP developer list re - Unicode. PHP has used ICU via extensions for some time, but always used the distributed versions. The current thoughts relate to making the core of PHP UTF-8 rather than single byte ASCII, and one of the options is to run ICU with t