enable mbstring by default
| From: | Ferenc Kovacs | 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.
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Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu