Given that ICU is a set of lively developed libraries, that ICU 50.1
has been released on 2012-11-05, and PHP 7.4 is scheduled to be
released seven years after it, we consider it appropriate to ditch
these legacy versions.
Particularly, that would be a reasonable groundwork to implement part
two of the “Deprecate and remove INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003” RFC[1], namely
to default idn_to_ascii()'s and idn_to_utf8()'s $variant parameter to
INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_UTS46, which is not defined in ICU < 4.6.
See also the related discussion on internals@[2].
[1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-and-remove-intl_idna_variant_2003>
[2] <http://news.php.net/php.internals/101626>ff
To better support IntlCalendar, added this function:
string IntlDateFormatter::formatObject(IntlCalendar|DateTime $obj [,
array|int|string $format = null [, string $locale = null).
$format is either of the constants IntlDateFormatter::FULL, etc., in
which case this format applies to both the date and the time, an array
in the form array($dateFormat, $timeFormat), or a string with the
SimpleDateFormat pattern.
This uses both the Calendar type and the timezone of the passed object
to configure the formatter (a GregorianCalendar is forced for
DateTime).
Some stuff was moved around and slighlt modified to allow for more code
reuse.
