Re: Converting "\u00F4" style characters

Michael Wallner wrote:

>>> Well yes, but it raises another obstacle :) Is the EUR symbol the
>>> only difference between latin1 and latin9?  It seems at a quick
>>> glance.
>> 
>> It's a few other characters too.. not many though.
> 
> Do you know a reference?

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/ISO%208859-15

>> 
>> 
>>> Is l0t3k still developing ext/i18n? While google'ing I read
>>> something that he also implemented an ICU parser.  pearfr-org is
>>> not reachable and the my userland ICU parser is extremely slow
>>> (would need to integrate a cache).
>> 
>> Yes, this is a very interesting project indeed. There are no changes
>> in cvs since october though, but I emailed him some days ago, and he
>> said he'd started working on it again. From browsing the code it
>> seems like it's quite a lot of the ICU functionality allready
>> implemented.
> 
> URL?
> http://www.voltex.jp/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/php-i18n/#dirlist
> seems to be outdated, and the checkout script is broken, too.
> 
>> What he's been doing is using the c++ implementation of ICU and
>> mapping it to php classes, so he's not actually creating the parsers
>> or anything, just porting the whole library, similar to what's done
>> with SimpleXML. Which is a very very good idea, and something php
>> really needs.
> 
> Yeah, even better!  PHP would really need it, but browsing some
> mail archives it seems that he didn't get much feedback...

Yeah, i did a search, and it's kind-of sad that it didn't get more feedback,
since it would have brought php a very long step towards proper i18n. 

> BTW: he => she? http://www.l0t3k.org/

oops, sorry about that. one should never assume... 

asgeir

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