Andrei Zmievski posted slides of his presentation PHP and Unicode @ OSCON 2005. I’m really interested and excited to get it working. Personaly one of my major problems is using regular expressions with unicode, most of the time impossible to make it working, while it really simplify life.
Mine was not the only talk regarding Unicode at the conference: Dan Kogai gave a presenation on Perl 5.8 and Unicode, and in my opinion, PHP 5.5/6 or whatever it ends up being will have a much better integrated runtime support in this area, not to mention an awesome set of i18n functions thanks to ICU. The goal is to make PHP as good as or better than any other Web development language out there when it comes to Unicode support, and so far that pretty much means Java. I am confident that that goal will be achieved.
Glad to see such great work, I really can’t wait to see it working on PHP !
