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

From: Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:58:05 +0000
Subject: Re: mb_string.func_overload has secretly been changed from PERDIR to SYSTEM
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2009.09.10 11:17 Tony Marston rašė: > > ""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? Works for me. See SquirrelMail functions/i18n.php set_up_language() function. -- Tomas

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