enable mbstring by default

From: Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:46:06 +0000
Subject: enable mbstring by default
Groups: php.internals 
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Hi. As the "full" unicode support went down with php6, wouldn't it be a logical step to enable the mbstring extension by default(maybe even turning it into a builtin ext like phar)? I think that mbstring is a pretty mature and stable extension, and there isn't much dependencies so I can't think of reason why we couldn't do it. Of course the mbstring.func_overload would still disabled by default (maybe exporting the mb functions to the 'utf8' namespace? :P), so it would be a backward compatible change. What do you think? ps: maybe it is too late for 5.4, but having it in trunk is still better than nothing. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu

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