Unicode

Support for Unicode in configfiles

The feature suggested in issue #20 was implemented today and the XP-Framework's config file API (util.Properties) now supports the Unicode encodings UTF-8, UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE in its ".ini"-files. The character set is determined by inspecting the BOM.

ZIP files now support Unicode filenames

The XP Framework's io.archive.zip package allows reading and creating ZIP files and is tested against zip archives created by Info-ZIP 3.0, PHP's Zip class, 7-zip, WinRAR and Windows' "compressed folders".

In SVN head, we have made a couple of adjustments to be able to support files written by Java's java.util.zip package (which is internally used by the jar command):

• Reading the central directory to find the compressed and uncompressed lengths, Java doesn't write this into the local file header - making it impossible to stream those files
  
• Supporting character set detection on extraction - up until JDK7 Build 57, the Java API was incorrectly writing entry names in UTF-8 but not setting the so-called "Language Encoding bit (EFS)".
  
• Supporting to write archives with Unicode names - a JDK build downloaded yesterday still chokes on non-Unicode filenames inside ZIP archives when no charset is given (default is "CP437" here).
  

5.8.0-RELEASE: XP Compiler, Extension methods, Generics revamped, ...

After almost one and a half years of development since the 5.8 branch was created and almost four months the active development branch, SVN trunk, was changed from 5.7 to 5.8, after six release candidates - we finally, and proudly present: XP 5.8, release zero

The most noteable changes are the following:

• The minimum required PHP version is 5.2.10
  
• The XP Compiler is now part of the framework. It compiles XP Language to XP Framework classes and supports syntactically what the framework does with "tricks": Type-safe enums, anonymous classes, finally, to name just a few.
  
• Not having the date.timezone setting configured will now yield a startup error. PHP behaves in undefined ways when working with dates in this situation! The installer takes care of detecting it from the operating system on setup.
  
• Extension methods have been added - see here for an example
  
• Generics have been reworked to support runtime reflection and primitive types, and thus behave more like the C# than like the Java implementation.
  
• Reflection API can now access private and protected methods and fields using setAccessible() - regardless of the underlying PHP version!
  
• Support for array and hash keys (key[], key[name]) in ini files
  
• Several additions to the xml.meta API - showcased in the article Hudson and the xml.meta API
  
• The new indexer access functionality, this()
  
• Unicode forward compatibility in the io.streams classes TextWriter and TextReader
  

  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.0~unicodeRC2 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

Unicode branch created

  # Developer
  $ svn co svn+ssh://$(USER)@svn.xp-framework.net/home/svn/xp/branches/unicode/
  
  # Anonymous
  $ svn co svn://svn.xp-framework.net/xp/branches/unicode

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