data from from the net if necessary. If it reports failure, something is
going wrong!
+You may have to set up PHPUnit first.
+
+$ pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
+$ pear install phpunit/PHPUnit
== Benchmarks ==
There's an experimental PHP extension module which wraps the ICU library's
normalization functions. This is *MUCH* faster than doing this work in pure
-PHP code. This is in the 'normal' directory in MediaWiki's CVS extensions
-module. It is known to work with PHP 4.3.8 and 5.0.2 on Linux/x86 but hasn't
+PHP code. This is at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/normal.git;a=summary.
+It is known to work with PHP 4.3.8 and 5.0.2 on Linux/x86 but hasn't
been thoroughly tested on other configurations.
If the php_normal.so module is loaded in php.ini, the normalization functions
will automatically use it. If you can't (or don't want to) load it in php.ini,
-you may be able to load it using the dl() function before include()ing or
-require()ing UtfNormal.php, and it will be picked up.
+you may be able to load it using the dl() function before the inclusion of
+UtfNormal.php, and it will be picked up.