[Fwd: [PHP-I18N] Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement]

2007-07-17 Thread My name is hidden
--- Begin Message --- Yes, normalization would be a good addition too, thanks for the idea. I notice normalization is not on your list. Would you consider adding it? In MediaWiki we currently have a pure PHP implementation of the NFC algorithm, which is obviously rather slow. We tried writing

[Fwd: [PHP-I18N] Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement]

2007-07-17 Thread My name is hidden
--- Begin Message --- Interesting question here: what about overloaded methods, especially overloaded ctors in Calendar etc? When PHP can't follow other APIs because of language limits we'll try to find a solution on case-by-case basis - either follow C API or do something smart depending on

[Fwd: [PHP-I18N] Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement]

2007-07-17 Thread My name is hidden
--- Begin Message --- I totally lack the words to describe the awesomeness of this. Really, really fantastic. At Agavi (http://www.agavi.org/), we've ported parts of ICU (locale, calendar, date) to PHP and we're using it together with CLDR data, but as you might imagine, it's awfully slow.

[Fwd: [PHP-I18N] Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement]

2007-07-17 Thread My name is hidden
--- Begin Message --- I totally lack the words to describe the awesomeness of this. Really, really fantastic. At Agavi (http://www.agavi.org/), we've ported parts of ICU (locale, calendar, date) to PHP and we're using it together with CLDR data, but as you might imagine, it's awfully slow.

[PHP-I18N] Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Interesting question here: what about overloaded methods, especially overloaded ctors in Calendar etc? When PHP can't follow other APIs because of language limits we'll try to find a solution on case-by-case basis - either follow C API or do something smart depending on input parameters. --

[PHP-I18N] Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Yes, normalization would be a good addition too, thanks for the idea. I notice normalization is not on your list. Would you consider adding it? In MediaWiki we currently have a pure PHP implementation of the NFC algorithm, which is obviously rather slow. We tried writing our own interface to the

[PHP-I18N] Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-16 Thread David Zülke
I totally lack the words to describe the awesomeness of this. Really, really fantastic. At Agavi (http://www.agavi.org/), we've ported parts of ICU (locale, calendar, date) to PHP and we're using it together with CLDR data, but as you might imagine, it's awfully slow. This new extension wil