Re: Re: cvs: php4 /ext/mbstring config.m4

> I asked to php-dev and nobody objects enabling mbstirng by > default. This allow some modules (extif, mailparse(?), for example) > to use multibyte feature. No objections here. > multibyte regular expression is "must have" feature for > ease of use. (preg supports UTF-8, but it requires conversion > in many cases) > > mbstr-enc-trans is enabled, since it's does not require > much performenace penalty and most multibyte aware installations > enable this option, I think. This option is subject to be > discussed. I think this should be turned off by default. I don't know how big is the performance penalty, but any unneeded slowdown is a bad thing. This also make bug chasing more difficult and as we have to maintain two separate pieces of code that do the same thing. Just have a look at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16985 which is caused by different behaviour of main/php_variables.c and ext/mbstring/mbstring.c. Could we please turn this feature off by default? Edin