mb_convert_kana is controlled by user-provided flags, which specify what it should convert and to what. These flags come in inverse pairs, for example "fullwidth numerals to halfwidth numerals" and "halfwidth numerals to fullwidth numerals". It does not make sense to combine inverse flags. But, clever reader of commit logs, you will surely say: What if I want all my halfwidth numerals to become fullwidth, and all my fullwidth numerals to become halfwidth? Much too clever, you are! Let's put aside the fact that this bizarre switch-up is ridiculous and will never be used, and face up to another stark reality: mb_convert_kana does not work for that case, and never has. This was probably never noticed because nobody ever tried. Disallowing useless combinations of flags gives freedom to rearrange the kana conversion code without changing behavior. We can also reject unrecognized flags. This may help users to catch bugs. Interestingly, the existing tests used a 'Z' flag, which is useless (it's not recognized at all).
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