Re: Re: mbstring

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:51:27 +0200 (CEST) derick@php.net wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, James Cox wrote: > > > > > > > No, this option is 'disabled' by default, and can be enabled by a > > > ini variable. > > > > > > mbstring.encoding_translation = Off; is default. > > > > > > If mbstring.encoding_translation = On is set in php.ini, > > > the transparent conversion will be enabled. > > > > > ok, but before, you had to --enable it before it'd work? or did it get built > > _EVERY_ time regardless? > > Does it matter? ini settings are much easier to notice during debugging > than #ifdefs, so I think Rui made an excellent choice here. However, > some documentation of these settings would be useful (hint :). Yes, I will add some documentation about new settings into PHP manual. > > > > > [snip] > > > Yes, I think mbstring is very fundamental feature and it should > > > be built-in > > > feature (in PHP 5.0). > > > But, string related functions and some other core functions > > > are included in ext/standard which is also in extension part. > > > > > > > sure, ext/standard works... we just need to lose the duplication. > > You obviously have no idea what mbstring exactly does, as this comments > makes little sense. mbstring _overloads_ functions which are in > ext/standard (such as strpos() ). That is a little bit too much magic, > and thus I like to see the mbstring functions merged into the > ext/standard functions (for PHP 5). I agree with you. As you said, mbstring _overloads_ functions are a kind of durty hack, and should be tempolary solution. I hope that strpos() and some other string functions will be multibyte enable by default in PHP 5. strlen() overloaded by mb_strlen might causes some problems because it is used to measure length of string and to measure length of binary data. So, a new function to measure string length only (or binary length only) will be necessary. -- ----------------------------------------------------- Rui Hirokawa <rui_hirokawa@ybb.ne.jp> <hirokawa@php.net>