Re: mbstring

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Masaki Fujimoto wrote: > Hi, > > let me vote not to remove mbstring (as a default one). I'd vote for setting it off by default _for now_, and enable it after 4.3. has branched, so we have a kick ass i18n solution in PHP5 replacing all code it duplicates. > yes, I can understand the thought that singlebyte users seem mbstirng > module is somehow 'extra' one. > > but please understand that this module is indispensable for multibyte > users (at least), and AFAIK there are growing numbers of multibyte users > of PHP. we japanese, korean and chinese have to handle 3 (or more) types > of encoding (+ UNICODE), and we cannot even count number characters (not > bytes) w/out mbstring. > > besides, I (we?) always make best effort that multibyte features do not > harm any other ones, and if it causes bugs, we (Yasuo, Rui or I) will > fix it ASAP (maybe:). Too bad that you can't predict anything. > > of course we can --enable-mbstring even if msbstirg is disabled by > default, but please remember that not all the users can always exec > 'configure' and edit php.ini. (use dl() ? hmm...) Every respectable sysadm in eastern countries installing PHP should be aware fo this and enable mbstring for his users. > > finally, it is true that mbstring is not the 'golden bullet':), but it > would be far better if we have some kind of bullets, isn't it ? Derick --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did I help you? http://www.derickrethans.nl/link.php?url=giftlist Frequent ranting: http://www.derickrethans.nl/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - derick@php.net All your branches are belong to me! SRM: Script Running Machine - www.vl-srm.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------