Re: [PHP-DEV] 4.0.6 From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 04/30/01

At 05:56 AM 5/1/2001 +0900, tsukada <email protected> wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:27:26 +0300
>Andi Gutmans wrote:
>
> > At 12:23 AM 5/1/2001 +0900, Rui Hirokawa wrote:
> >
> > >On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:26:58 +0300
> > >Andi Gutmans <andi <email protected>> wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 10:01 PM 4/29/2001 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> > > > >ext/wchar (wide character support?)
> > > > >ext/mstring (multibyte string functions)
> > > > >ext/jpstring (japanese string functions)
> > > >
> > > > I'd make mstring -> mbstring.
> > > > The question is if it's worth splitting this up into more than one
> > > > extension. Probably not.
> > > > So we should probably be picking out of wchar, mbstring, jpstring.
> > > > Rui, what do you think?
> > >
> > >I prefer unified approach is better for php-i18n than splitting
> > >some modules.
> > >I think mbstring is better, although this module also
> > >supports single-byte encoding like ISO-8859-X.
> > >Some people might say 'wchar' is better choise,
> > >because this module converts string to wide character internally.
> > >
> > >If someone want to add some other encoding support,
> > >he should add mbfilter_xx.c mbfilter_xx.h where xx means some
> > >specific language like ja (japanese).
> > >
> > >Anyway, because I am not original author of this module,
> > >I must discuss to Mr. Tsukada ,the original author of jstring
> > >about renaming the module.
> >
> > OK. I think wchar or mbstring are both good. jstring will just confuse
> people.
> >
>
>I think mbstring is nice.

Sounds good.

Andi 

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