RE: Re: ICU Extensions for PHP

Thanks for the comment on my site, it is nice to hear.

I can't commit to helping out just yet, without knowing more about what is
needed, but I am interested to know more about what you have, and perhaps
also to stir up further interest in moving PHP&ICU forward. I would think
that some mention of it on the ICU mail list and web site would bring some
others around...

tex

-----Original Message-----
From: l0t3k [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [PHP-I18N] Re: ICU Extensions for PHP

"Tex Texin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:004c01c4bc75$a21c3690$3b3a91d8@tex...
>>There was some discussion (Mar 2003) of ICU Extensions for PHP: 
>>http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200303/msg00656.html
im the guilty party.

>>I am interested to know if this was ever completed?
well yes and no. yes, i have a working subset of ICU compiled into a PHP
extension that currently compiles and runs under Windows (i havent had time
to fix the *nix build). No, its nots not quite complete, since it is a bit
of a hack. Fearing that ICU as a whole would constitute too much of a
dependency requirement, i ported selected portions to C and wrapped it into
an extension. The good thing is it requires only iconv as a dependency and
implements about 19 common objects (e.g. UnicodeString, formatting classes,
ResourceBundles). The bad thing is that with the fork, there is no way of
keeping up with ICU's progress.
    I spoke with Derick Rethans and he has been given leave by his company
to devote some resources to doing this properly, and since i have a bit of a
headstart, i'll coordinate with him so we can have something usable by 5.1.
    Until then, if you'd like a crack at what i've got, just give me a
shout..

l0t3k

BTW - love your site. it was daily reading while working on the extension.



Tex Texin

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