Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-13 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, July 13, 2007 2:35 pm, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > 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. I realize that my natural state is the state

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-13 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
So now there's going to be a PHP-ICU extension for PHP 5 and PHP 6, and PHP 6 will have ICU built-in to such an extent that it's backwards compatible with PHP 5? Both extensions would be (are being) written in such a way that code that worked on PHP 5 would work on PHP 6, with regard to the ext

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-13 Thread Larry Garfield
On Saturday 14 July 2007, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > So now there's going to be a PHP-ICU extension for PHP 5 and PHP 6, > > and PHP 6 will have ICU built-in to such an extent that it's backwards > > compatible with PHP 5? > > Both extensions would be (are being) written in such a way that code

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-14 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
So (from another character-set-intricacy-challenged individual), would ICU it be analogous to the DOM functions for manipulating XML-like structures? (The methods parentNode(), childNodes(), appendNode(), etc. are all supposed to mean the same thing in every language.) I'm not sure I understand

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-14 Thread Tim Starling
Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > 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. I notice normalization is not on your list. Would you consider

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-16 Thread David Zülke
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 wil

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-16 Thread Pierre
On 7/14/07, Stanislav Malyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So (from another character-set-intricacy-challenged individual), > would ICU it be analogous to the DOM functions for manipulating > XML-like structures? (The methods parentNode(), childNodes(), > appendNode(), etc. are all supposed to

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
the same) in all languages, js, c# or php. His question being: will it be the same with this project? Maybe not exactly the same, since even C, C++ and Java API differ enough, but close to it - i.e. the API set would follow what ICU APIs have. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect [EM

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP ICU project announcement

2007-07-16 Thread David Zülke
Interesting question here: what about overloaded methods, especially overloaded ctors in Calendar etc? David Am 16.07.2007 um 17:44 schrieb Stanislav Malyshev: the same) in all languages, js, c# or php. His question being: will it be the same with this project? Maybe not exactly the