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.
>
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Received on Sat Sep 8 18:46:45 2001