User:MarkAHershberger/Weekly reports/2010-W09

Since I'm contractually obligated to provide a weekly update and I haven't yet for the Week 9, I'm doing it now before it slips into the next week.

Fixme on multi-byte characters characters
I spent the week looking at Philip's changes to search (r60742, r60743, r60764, r60766, r61214, r61857, etc) and trying to understand how I could write some simple tests for them without spinning up a whole instance of Apache.

In fact (I can write now, since this report is late) I must have been in a fog the entire week. I didn't realize at the time that the core problem to be solved was normalization of latin characters.

Unit Tests
I had planned on being available to discuss PHPUnit during the conference call. Even though it wasn't on the schedule, it seemed like a natural fit. However, differences in time zones and personal commitments conspired so that I had to leave the call before it came up.

Thus it was very frustrating to come back and see that Danese had specifically asked me to talk about it, but I had already left.