Re: [PHP-I18N] Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [PHP-I18N] adding GB18030 support for mbstring

[email protected] (Stanislav Malyshev) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:18:44 -0800
Newsgroups php.i18n
Organization Zend Technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

> In an ideal world yes. But in our not so ideal world mbstring is still
> here, is still used in many places inside PHP and I think it makes
> sense too add more encoding if there is a need for them.

Can't we make mbstring to use ICU data so that if somebody uses the API 
he gets the API, but encodings list is all of those supported by ICU?
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