Class name conflict with a PECL extension: Locale

[arnaud]

If the "Internationalization Functions" PECL extension http://pecl.php.net/package/intl is installed there is class name conflict on the Locale class.

intl defines a Locale class.

[chrismeller]

We'll need to rename the class and update all references to it. The easiest thing would be to take a PEAR-ish standard of prefixing the class with the package name: Habari_Locale. Personally, I would prefer to change it to something like 'il8n'.

[sean]

Changing it to something like 'i18n' only works until PHP defines a i18n class. The real fix will be in 5.3 (namespaces) but we can't expect all users to immediately switch (unfortunately), so the prefix is the proper way to do it. All classes should have prefixes, IMO. Even "HI_Locale" would be better.

See: http://php.net/manual/en/userlandnaming.php

This potentially breaks all plugins, though, and anything else that uses the API.

[MattRead]

I think the only thing that refrences Locale in the _t,_e,_n functions. and the index.php that sets locale. So this change would be easy. Prefixing every class would be a big pain.