With a bit of a rebuttal for Harry Fuecks' statement that PHP has a great lack of international support comes this new posting from John Lim at PHPEverywhere.

Harry Fuecks, who is a great guy, quotes Joel Spolsky about the apparent lack of international support for PHP.

This is so 2003. It ignores the fantastic work by hirokawa, moriyoshi, yohgaki and other japanese coders on the mbstring extension. PHP has worked well with multi-byte character sets since 4.3, especially when UTF-8 is used as the base for your work. The iconv extension is pretty cool also.

Just remember - it doesn't have to be a part of PHP to be a part of PHP...