MicroSoft invented three encodings very similar to ISO-2022-JP/JIS7/JIS8, called CP50220, CP50221, and CP50222. All three are supported by mbstring. Since these encodings are very similar, some code can be shared. Actually, conversion of CP50220/1/2 to Unicode is exactly the same operation; it's when converting from Unicode to CP50220/1/2 that some small differences arise in how certain katakana are handled. The most important common code was a function called `mbfl_filt_wchar_jis_ms`. The `jis_ms` part doubtless refers to the fact that these encodings are modified versions of 'JIS' invented by 'MS'. mbstring also went a step further and exported 'JIS-ms' to userland as a separate encoding from CP50220/1/2. If users requested 'JIS-ms' conversion, they got something like CP50220/1/2, minus their special ways of handling half-width katakana when converting from Unicode. But... that 'encoding' is not something which actually exists in the world outside of mbstring. CP50220/1/2 do exist in MicroSoft software, but not 'JIS-ms'. For a text encoding conversion library, inventing new variant encodings and implementing them is not very productive. Our interest is in handling text encodings which real people actually use for... you know, storing actual text and things like that.
libmbfl
This is libmbfl, a streamable multibyte character code filter and converter library, written by Shigeru Kanemoto.
The original version of libmbfl is developed and distributed at https://github.com/moriyoshi/libmbfl under the LGPL 2.1 license. See the LICENSE file for licensing information.
The libmbfl library is bundled with PHP as a fork of the original repository and is not in sync with the upstream. As such, the libmbfl directory is directly modified in the php-src repository.
Changelog
October 2017
- Since 2017, it is forked and bundled in the php-src repository. For the list of changes related to PHP see the PHP NEWS change logs.
Version 1.3.2 August 20, 2011
- Added JISX-0213:2004 based encoding : Shift_JIS-2004, EUC-JP-2004, ISO-2022-JP-2004 (rui).
- Added gb18030 encoding (rui).
- Added CP950 with user user defined area based on Big5 (rui).
- Added mapping for user defined character area to CP936 (rui).
- Added UTF-8-Mobile to support the pictogram characters defined by mobile phone carrier in Japan (rui).
Version 1.3.1 August 5, 2011
- Added check for invalid/obsolete utf-8 encoding (rui).
Version 1.3.0 August 1, 2011
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Added encoding conversion between Shift_JIS and Unicode (6.0 or PUA) for pictogram characters defined by mobile phone carrier in Japan (rui).
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Fixed encoding conversion of cp5022x for user defined area (rui).
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Added MacJapanese (SJIS-mac) for legacy encoding support (rui).
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Backport from PHP 5.2 (rui).
Version 1.1.0 March 02, 2010
- Added cp5022x encoding (moriyoshi)
- Added ISO-2022-JP-MS (moriyoshi)
- Moved to github.com from sourceforge.jp (moriyoshi)
Earlier versions
- 1998/11/10 sgk implementation in C++
- Rewriting with sgk C 1999/4/25.
- 1999/4/26 Implemented sgk input filter. Add filter while estimating kanji code.
- 1999/6 Unicode support.
- 1999/6/22 Changed sgk license to LGPL.
Credits
Marcus Boerger helly@php.net Hayk Chamyan hamshen@gmail.com Wez Furlong wez@thebrainroom.com Rui Hirokawa hirokawa@php.net Shigeru Kanemoto sgk@happysize.co.jp U. Kenkichi kenkichi@axes.co.jp Moriyoshi Koizumi moriyoshi@php.net Hironori Sato satoh@jpnnet.com Tsukada Takuya tsukada@fminn.nagano.nagano.jp Tateyama tateyan@amy.hi-ho.ne.jp Den V. Tsopa tdv@edisoft.ru Maksym Veremeyenko verem@m1stereo.tv Haluk AKIN halukakin@gmail.com