Re: Multibyte and declate (PHP5.4)

Hi, 2011/8/11 Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> > Hi Sebastian > > 2011/8/11 Sebastian Krebs <sebastian.krebs.berlin@googlemail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > With PHP5.4 I get this warning > > > > | Warning: declare(encoding=...) ignored because Zend multibyte feature > > | is turned off by settings in [..] > > > > because of > > > > | declare(encoding = 'UTF-8'); > > > > An except from the manual [1] > > > > In PHP 5.4, the compile time switch was removed and made into an ini > directive, which lives under the name of zend.multibyte = [On|Off]. > Ah, I see. multibyte is either compiled in, or not (PHP5.3), or its either enabled, or not (PHP5.4). Now I see a difference between "not compiled in" (declare(encoding) is ignored) and "not enabled" (declare(encoding) throws a warning). > For the question about why its not enabled by default? Performance, > you don't want to enable multibyte support when most of your code > lives in a single byte char format anyway, some calls are most costly > because you can no longer jump just one byte and have to validate what > kind of character sequence we're at now. > This means, that either the file is ASCII and I should omit the declare(encoding)-statement [1], or its not ASCII, but then -- when multibyte is disabled -- I should not assume, that everything works fine? That is, what the warning should tell me? [1] Sidenote: Maybe it could ignore declare(encoding='ASCII') ;) > > -- > regards, > > Kalle Sommer Nielsen > kalle@php.net > At all I think now, that the warning is probably the better reaction than just doing nothing. No further question, thanks for that :) Regards, Sebastian