Re: mb_string.func_overload has secretly been changed from PERDIR to SYSTEM
| From: | Tony Marston | Date: | Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:25:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: mb_string.func_overload has secretly been changed from PERDIR to SYSTEM | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.internals |
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There is no set_up_language() function, and what has SquirrelMail got to do
with PHP?
Unless you can point to some official documentation on the PHP web site your
"advice" is totally unsubstantiated and virtually worthless.
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Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org
""Tomas Kuliavas"" <tokul@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
news:1674.c316b4e9.1252580285.nsm@avilys.eik.lt...
> 2009.09.10 11:17 Tony Marston rase:
>>
>> ""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
>