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mensbeam/intl
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A set of dependency-free basic internationalization tools

0.9.4(3mo ago)0305↓100%[3 PRs](https://github.com/mensbeam/Intl/pulls)MITPHPPHP >=7.1CI passing

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Dependency-free internationalization tools for PHP
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[](#dependency-free-internationalization-tools-for-php)

While PHP's [internationalization extension](https://php.net/manual/en/book.intl.php) offers excellent and extensive functionality for dealing with human languages, character encodings, and various related things, it is not always available. Moreover, its character decoder does not yield the same results as [WHATWG's Encoding standard](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/), making it unsuitable for implementing parsers for URLs or HTML. The more widely used [multi-byte string extension](https://php.net/manual/en/book.mbstring.php) not only suffers the same problems, but is also very slow.

Included here is a complete suite of WHATWG-compatible seekable string decoders which are reasonably performant while requiring no external dependencies or PHP extensions. Where applicable, code point encoders are also included. In time it may also provide other character-centric internationalization functionality.

###  Health Score

42

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FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance80

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity56

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~194 days

Recently: every ~440 days

Total

15

Last Release

110d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)0.1.0PHP ^7.0

0.8.0PHP ^7.1

0.8.1PHP >=7.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

charsetcharset-conversioncharset-detectionencodingencoding-conversionencoding-detectionintlutf-8internationalizationutf8unicodeencodingcharsetWHATWG

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