Hi!

Following more than a year of planning and development, and the release of version 1.0.0 on PECL, I have merged today the intl extension into PHP core. The list of its current capabilities is here: http://php.net/intl - please try it out and enjoy. Version compatible with 5.2.x starting 5.2.4 is available from PECL, and for 5.3 is in the CVS tree.

I would like to say big thanks to everybody who contributed to this project, by helping to design it, write the code, test it or provided feedback and bug reports. Thanks a lot!

With this, it is not by any means the end of the road for this project. There's still much to be done. We need to integrate it much better with PHP 6, improve support for other modules like DateTime, and support more capabilities of ICU, like resources, calendars, IDN - and you probably could think of more. And, of course, bugfixes :)

If you have any comments, wishes, feedback etc. please tell. And if you encounter a bug or have specific feature request please go to http://pecl.php.net/package/intl and go to "Package Bugs"->"Report new bug".