Hi,
As a PHP user I'm sadly confronted daily with PHP's lack of proper
Unicode support. PHP is rapidly falling behind the competition... as far
as I know, Perl, Python, VBScript, Ruby all have good Unicode
implementations. That PHP still doesn't have that after so many years
sounds like there is a general lack of awareness about the issue from
the core team and what to do about it.
I'm not a big shot C coder, but I do know a lot about encodings and
Unicode, so I've outlined the big "Unicode and PHP" problem in an
article, along with a proposal on how to tackle it:
http://www.acko.net/blog/unicode-in-php
It's a bit long, but then it's a complicated issue. I hope you guys find
it informative or at least skim over the bold parts to see what is
causing me and many others to tear my hair out in frustration and
seriously consider alternatives.
Thanks,
Steven Wittens
PS: Sorry if this has to go to PHP-I18N instead, but that list seems to
be aimed at practical I18N problems.. not fundamental changes in the
core. Internals seemed more appropriate for this.
