(keitai-l) Re: PHP3 vs. PHP4

From: george baptista <george_at_omame.com>
Date: 09/08/01
Message-ID: <3B9A42D4.EC26EEE3@omame.com>
It still seemed somewhat buggy to me, but here's
stuff about PHP4.0.6 with Japanese mbrex support,
if you're interested:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php
http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Darren at FlyingColor also created a very interesting
set of Japanese-related classes, check it out:
http://www.flyingcolor.com/fclib/docs/


ciao,
-george


Mika Tuupola wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Nik Frengle wrote:
> 
> > > I thought that there wasn't even any character support with php3? Japanese
> > > coders had to get around this by installing an extension or something
> 
> > I was thinking the same thing, Virgil, but didn't want to get flamed by all
> > of the extremely well-informed members of this list (hear the goma
> > grinding). I have, in fact, looked high and low for a library that supports
> > Japanese fully in PHP3, and never found anything like the perl libraries.  I
> > thought PHP4.04 and earlier versions of PHP 4 handled Japanese in Unicode
> > fine, though there seems to be a problem with 4.06.
> 
>         http://www.php.gr.jp/project/i18n/README.i18n_eng.html
> 
>         "This package allows you to handle multiple Japanese encodings
>         (SJIS, EUC, UTF-8, JIS) in PHP."
> 
>         This is what I was talking about earlier. I remember discussing
>         this with someone (George or Nick, not sure anymore ;) earlier
>         and he said that many Japanese developers are still sticking
>         with php3 since I18N didn't support php4 too well yet.
> 
> --
> Mika Tuupola                      http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
> 
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Received on Sat Sep 8 18:46:45 2001