Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

[email protected] (Stanislav Malyshev) Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:45:05 -0700
Newsgroups php.i18n
Organization Zend Technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yes, normalization would be a good addition too, thanks for the idea.

> I notice normalization is not on your list. Would you consider adding
> it? In MediaWiki we currently have a pure PHP implementation of the NFC
> algorithm, which is obviously rather slow. We tried writing our own
> interface to the ICU normalization functions, but lost interest when we
> hit some stability issues after deployment. Normalization is important
> because client systems may apply either NFC or NFD, or just leave the
> text unnormalized, leading to spurious instability of text in a version
> tracking system like a wiki.
> 
> -- Tim Starling

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