Re: [PHP-I18N] Unicode support with UString abstraction layer

2012-09-01 Thread TRiG
I would suggest changing the terminology here. A "string" is quite simply an array of bytes, with no intrinsic meaning or encoding. This "UString" is something quite different, and giving it a similar name might cause confusion. I'd suggest calling it a "text" type. Having distinct "string" an

Re: [PHP-I18N] Unicode support with UString abstraction layer

2012-08-31 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Umberto Salsi wrote: > >> Although I never contributed to the code of the PHP project, I hope the >> ideas >> that follow may provide some suggestion for the future developments of >> the PHP >> language.

Re: [PHP-I18N] Unicode support with UString abstraction layer

2012-07-22 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
Hi, I think that there aren't that many people subscribed to this list, so I'm ccing the internals list, as your suggestion is to implement/bundle this to the core. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Umberto Salsi wrote: > Although I never contributed to the code of the PHP project, I hope the >

[PHP-I18N] Unicode support with UString abstraction layer

2012-03-21 Thread Umberto Salsi
Although I never contributed to the code of the PHP project, I hope the ideas that follow may provide some suggestion for the future developments of the PHP language. The basic idea is described in the abstract, and those that are not interested may stop there :-) Abstract My modest pro