Re: mb_string.func_overload has secretly been changed from PERDIR to SYSTEM

""Tomas Kuliavas"" <tokul@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message news:40100.4e3f9432.1252518200.nsm@avilys.eik.lt... > 2009.09.09 19:12 Tony Marston rase: >> I have reported this problem in >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49238. It >> would appear that this option, which was first made available in PHP >> 4.2.0, >> has been silently dropped. Apparently the decision was made in order to >> fix >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43227, but nothing was >> explicitly stated >> in >> the bug report, nor in any release notes, and the documentation still has >> not been updated to reflect this change even after 6 months. >> >> This causes a problem if your site is on a shared server and you don't >> have >> access to either php.ini or httpd.conf. If this option is turned off by >> default, then how do you turn it on? If it is on by default then how do >> you turn it off? It needs to be turned off for phpMyAdmin otherwise it >> will issue a message warning about possible data corruption. > > I think you can turn off mbstring overloading by setting internal mbstring > encoding to 'pass'. Instead of turning mbstring overloading on you should > use mbstring functions. You THINK it can be turned off this way? That's not good enough. Does it actually work? Where is it documented? -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org