Re: iconv vs. mbstring
| From: | Dan Ackroyd | Date: | Sun, 08 Mar 2020 14:08:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: iconv vs. mbstring | ||
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 22:17, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> for more
> general string functionality, it would be ext/mbstring.
>
> Thoughts?
>
Related to this discussion, please could someone remind me why the
mbstring extension is an extension and not part of core PHP?
I realise at the time it was introduced, UTF-8 was far less widely
used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#/media/File:Utf8webgrowth.svg
But now UTF-8 is pretty much the default for the vast majority of
projects, so does that decision to keep it as an optional extension
still hold up?
cheers
Dan
Ack
