not only encoding support, but internationalized date/time/number formatting support (including spellout), collation, breakiteration and transliteration. in many respects we'll be on par with Java I18N support. To see what will be available, see http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/ and look at the topics on the left l0t3k "Jochem Maas" <jochem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:43009F3A.40102@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > the biggest gain in php6 will be transparent unicode support - that is > awesome, > a really big plus - I'm crap at encoding et al and would really love it > if > php could handle all those funny characters without me having to think > about it > too much (and without having to using mb_string or iconv) - I run a couple > of multi-lingual > sites - right now I just pray every night that nobody asks me to implement > japanese, > or something, there ;-) > >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php