Re: Re: ICU Extensions for PHP
Vahid Ghafarpour <[email protected]>
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If you like to continue I like to help you, I wish that we all together start it and also I think in this way somebody else will be help us. Tex Texin wrote: >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 > > > -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php