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

While that is one of the concerns, I don't quite think having multiple
encoding conversion libraries that requires huge RSS makes much sense.
 Looking for possibilities to extend ICU itself should be worth a try.

Regards,
Moriyoshi

2010/2/2 KITAZAKI Shigeru <[email protected]>:
> Koizumi-san
>
> Let me tell you the one concern about mbstring-ng.
> The current mbstring supports 'ISO-2022-JP-MS', this is different from
> 'ISO-2022-JP'. And the current implementation of ICU can not convert
> between ISO-2022-JP-MS and unicode correctly, I guess.
> For example, Japanese hankaku katakana, GA, A with a sonant mark.
>
> Although it's better way to modify ICU itself, it takes long time.
> How do you think of this?
>
> Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote:
>> BTW, I created an extension that is near-compatible with mbstring and
>> based on ICU that of course supports GB18030. See
>> http://github.com/moriyoshi/mbstring-ng for detail.
>>
>
> Regards,
> Shigeru
>