Re: svn: /php/php-src/trunk/ NEWS ext/standard/html.c ext/standard/tests/strings/bug44703.phpt
ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_basic1.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_basic2.phpt
ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_variation1.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/htmlentities.phpt php.ini-development
php.ini-production
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:28:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: svn: /php/php-src/trunk/ NEWS ext/standard/html.c ext/standard/tests/strings/bug44703.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_basic1.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_basic2.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/get_html_translation_table_variation1.phpt ext/standard/tests/strings/htmlentities.phpt php.ini-development php.ini-production |
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On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 08:04 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> On 03/26/2010 05:39 AM, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 18:08 +0000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >> rasmus Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:08:06 +0000
> >>
> >> Revision:
> >> http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=296685
> >>
> >> Log:
> >> Switch default_charset, if not specified, from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
> >> I have been wanting to make this change for years, but there is a small
> >> chance of BC issues, so it shouldn't go into a minor release.
> >
> > I in "my world" this isn't just a small chance of a break. Over here
> > every application has to deal with non-ASCII characters (äöüßÄÖÜ). Many
> > "average" applications don't set the encoding, most don't care.
> >
> > With the environments using more and more Utf-8 (operating system
> > environments, editor defaults, ...) the change is good but it is no
> > small thing but will cause "trouble" for many users having iso-8859-1
> > texts in their database and getting broken pages after the upgrade and
> > we should advise users to mind their encodings!
> >
> > Fixing applications is easy, getting the knowledge to our users is hard.
>
> Well, they don't necessarily have to fix their application. They can
> just put: default_charset=iso-8859-1 in their php.ini.
If they have access to the file, which many users don't have. And I
don't object to the change, just want to get some more awareness about
the impact.
johannes
p.s. sorry for CC'ing internals-win, not internals, my completion went
wrong.