Re: iconv vs. mbstring

2020.03.08 16:08 Dan Ackroyd rašė: > 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? Majority is not 100%. Your German folders in webmails are not in UTF-8. Even if application operates in utf-8, it still must be able to work not with utf-8 and PHP functions that changed default from ascii/iso-8859-1 to utf-8 were not designed to operate in real world. Reason why mbstring are not base string functions is why PHP6 does not exist. -- Tomas