[PHP-I18N] Re: PHP Unicode support using ICU/xIUA From: Colin Viebrock (colin <email protected>)
Date: 10/12/01

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- Colin

"Carl W. Brown" <cbrown <email protected>> wrote in message
news:20011011175415.8384.qmail <email protected>
> About a year and a half ago I developed code to enable PHP3 to support
> Unicode using ICU. These was some initial interest but it died fast so I
> did not look into what it would take to develop a PHP4 solution. The
> original problem was adding UTF-16 (UCS-2) support to PHP. In the mean
time
> I have perfected the ICU interface code and have recently made it
available
> as open source code.
>
> It is thread safe cross-platform and not only supports all forms of
Unicode
> (UTF-8, UTF-16 & UTF-32) but it supports code page data with the same
code.
> It is great for browsers because it can use the same functions to process
> code page and Unicode data dynamically so that the code does not change if
> you are using UTF-8 for one browser and EUC-JP for another. It has new
> functions to make PHP charset handling easier. No there is no need to add
> 16 bit data types to PHP.
>
> I added the Unicode support to PHP3 but making it a semi-resident module.
> It also required some minor changes to the HTTP header processing. With
the
> new xIUA code the changes to PHP are far less. It also make PHP thread
safe
> in that each thread can have different locales. This is something that
> setlocale does not provide.
>
> Carl
>
>
> 

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