Re: Re: PHP's Zend multibyte support

Hi, On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 15:26 +0100, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > > You can provide a --SKIPIF-- section to detect MB support > > (http://qa.php.net/write-test.php ). > > --SKIPIF-- > > <?php > > if (!in_array("detect_unicode", array_keys(ini_get_all()))) { > > die "skip Requires --enable-zend-multibyte option"; > > WTF? Where did that INI entry come from? :) > > It isn't in php.ini-dist and the only docs I can find is > (http://no.php.net/manual/en/ini.php): > detect_unicode "1" PHP_INI_ALL Available since PHP 5.1.0. > Removed in PHP 6.0.0. According to my research when the MB issues popped up that setting was added as a hack to help the scanner to have less confusion with it's encoding detection when using __HALT_COMPILER(); There's an internals discussion, but i don't have it at hand right now. > Is it really PHP_INI_ALL? That doesn't make much sense to me. I > thought the multibyte scanning was compile time? > (Or is it like the current short_tags proposal; > ini_set("detect_unicode"); include "..."; ?) Yes, it's for the latter, I guess. johannes