php-i18n Digest 16 Jul 2007 09:48:54 -0000 Issue 361
Topics (messages 1079 through 1080):
Re: PHP ICU project announcement
1079 by: l0t3k
Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement
1080 by: David Zülke
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Great news...
i was waiting for some movement on this front. i suppost there will be web
project space for this ?
also, i'd like to see specs if available. i may have some spare cycles to
put some work in. in addition i
have some code sitting around implementing various bits of i18n
functionality that i'd like to submit
pending discussion and approval....
l0t3k
"Stanislav Malyshev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi all!
>
> We have started a project to make it easier to support international
> markets using PHP. A number of internationalization functions from IBM ICU
> will be made available in PHP as an extension.
>
> This project targets both PHP 5 and PHP 6. The goal is to support the most
> useful i18n services on both, while ensuring that any code running in PHP
> 5 using these functions would work the same in PHP 6. The PHP 6
> implementation may provide additional functionality.
>
> The demand for internationalization services is large and is needed today,
> so we decided to support them in PHP 5 and provide one common solution
> that will also work going forward. There will be no PHP 4 support in the
> project.
>
> The base for the extension is the ICU library
> (http://www.icu-project.org/) already used by PHP 6, and the intent is
> to follow the ICU model, so that people having experience working
> with ICU in either C/C++ or Java could easily use the PHP API.
>
> The extension is composed of mostly independent functionality modules,
> each of which would implement one of the functionalities below.
> The APIs support both procedural and object-oriented notation
> (internally referring to the same APIs). In PHP 5, the extension assumes
> all incoming and outgoing strings are in UTF-8 encoding.
>
> The scope of the extension was defined as follows:
> - Collation (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/ucol_8h.html)
> - Number formatting (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/unum_8h.html)
> - Date/time formatting
> (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/udat_8h.html)
> - Locales (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/uloc_8h.html)
> - Calendars (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/ucal_8h.html)
> - International domain names
> (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/uidna_8h.html)
> - Message formatting
> (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/umsg_8h.html)
> - Resource bundles (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/ures_8h.html)
>
> We have initial implementations of collation and number formatting APIs
> for PHP 5, which will be publicly available soon. PHP 6 implementation and
> other APIs will follow. The project code will be available through PECL.
>
> The project is supported by LiveNation, Yahoo! and Zend Technologies.
>
> We welcome all feedback about the project - especially suggestions about
> what functionality is needed and comments about existing implementation.
>
> We intend to discuss it on the PHP Internationalization list -
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] We welcome you to join the list and participate in
> the discussion. We will publish API descriptions for existing functions on
> the i18n list in a couple of days, to start the things rolling.
>
> Regards,
> PHP-ICU team
> --
> Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zend.com/
> (408)253-8829 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I totally lack the words to describe the awesomeness of this. Really,
really fantastic. At Agavi (http://www.agavi.org/), we've ported
parts of ICU (locale, calendar, date) to PHP and we're using it
together with CLDR data, but as you might imagine, it's awfully slow.
This new extension will save many kitten's lives. Keep it up!
David
Am 13.07.2007 um 21:35 schrieb Stanislav Malyshev:
Hi all!
We have started a project to make it easier to support
international markets using PHP. A number of internationalization
functions from IBM ICU will be made available in PHP as an extension.
This project targets both PHP 5 and PHP 6. The goal is to support
the most useful i18n services on both, while ensuring that any code
running in PHP 5 using these functions would work the same in PHP
6. The PHP 6
implementation may provide additional functionality.
The demand for internationalization services is large and is needed
today, so we decided to support them in PHP 5 and provide one
common solution that will also work going forward. There will be no
PHP 4 support in the project.
The base for the extension is the ICU library
(http://www.icu-project.org/) already used by PHP 6, and the intent is
to follow the ICU model, so that people having experience working
with ICU in either C/C++ or Java could easily use the PHP API.
The extension is composed of mostly independent functionality modules,
each of which would implement one of the functionalities below.
The APIs support both procedural and object-oriented notation
(internally referring to the same APIs). In PHP 5, the extension
assumes
all incoming and outgoing strings are in UTF-8 encoding.
The scope of the extension was defined as follows:
- Collation (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/ucol_8h.html)
- Number formatting (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/
unum_8h.html)
- Date/time formatting
(http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/udat_8h.html)
- Locales (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/uloc_8h.html)
- Calendars (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/ucal_8h.html)
- International domain names
(http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/uidna_8h.html)
- Message formatting (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/
umsg_8h.html)
- Resource bundles (http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/
ures_8h.html)
We have initial implementations of collation and number formatting
APIs for PHP 5, which will be publicly available soon. PHP 6
implementation and other APIs will follow. The project code will be
available through PECL.
The project is supported by LiveNation, Yahoo! and Zend Technologies.
We welcome all feedback about the project - especially suggestions
about
what functionality is needed and comments about existing
implementation.
We intend to discuss it on the PHP Internationalization list -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] We welcome you to join the list and
participate in the discussion. We will publish API descriptions for
existing functions on the i18n list in a couple of days, to start
the things rolling.
Regards,
PHP-ICU team
--
Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zend.com/
(408)253-8829 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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