RE: [PHP-DEV] enable mbstring by default

On October-11-11 11:46 AM Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > 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. The mbstring extension was enabled by default once upon a time, if memory serves, and as I recall the results were extremely painful. While both PHP and mbstring have matured significantly since then, I'm old school that way. Fool me once... Best, Mike Robinson