Re: [PHP-DEV] Multi byte Support From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 03/30/99

At 12:46 29/03/99 -0800, Hironori Sato wrote:
>Howdy ya'all.
>
>I'm currently trying to organize a group of people to do Japanese support
>of PHP3. We have always had the patch for 'Japanizing PHP' since PHP/FI,
>but I felt the need to merge with the main distribution. So, I asked my
>boss and got an approval for working on this project. I have already
>talked to Mr. Shigeru Kanemoto who has CVS write permission and we are
>coordinating via small mailing list called PHPJ-DEV.
>
>So, is anyone else working on multi byte support? If so, please let me
>know. I don't want to waste my time if someone else is working on it. If
>all goes well, Japanese support will be able to merge with the main
>distribution fairly soon since there is already working patch. I just need
>to be careful about the implementation to cover general multi byte. Once
>that's taken care of, I will work more on general multi byte support such
>as Chinese and Korean.
>
>We are still at the stage of getting the development going, so not much
>detail can be explained yet. But, I would welcome any comments and
>feedbacks for multi byte support.
>
>Thanks in advance.

As a project that involves a lot of work on the language API and engine,
I'd personally delay it for now. Mostly all the code for the new API and
engine are laid out for PHP 4 already (even though it'll take a while
before its finalized and publically released). That means that any work
you invest in Japanizing PHP3 will have to be remade from scratch for PHP4,
that will start hitting the shelves in mid 1999 (estimated).
Of course, it may be worth it to you to have PHP3 working for the time
being, until PHP4 is proved to be stable and all. If it isn't, though, I'd
simply wait.

Zeev 

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