Re: mbstring and 4.3.0

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Derick Rethans wrote: >On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Marcus Boerger wrote: > >> To make php be easier usable in non US-ASCII (127chars) environments >> especially those requiring UCS-2, UTF-8 or other any character mapping >> other than iso-8859-1 or -15 we should more likly try to integrate mbstring >> fully in php. As long as we cannot or want not make it a core component >> such as ext/standard we should enable it by default. > >If people want it they can use --enable-mbstring. I see no reason why it >should be enabled by default as long as it's not fully integrated in the >core. Zeev could give some figures about how many PHP users there are in those countries that really need this? :) Anyway, I'm +1 for making it disabled by default. The people who really need it already need to use --enable-mbstring since that's how it was in 4.2.3 anyway. --Jani