Re: enable mbstring by default

Will PHP really never, ever, ever be unicode by default? It'll always be a weird special case to not be from the shores of the Atlantic? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Klaus Silveira <contato@klaussilveira.com> wrote: > What drawbacks could possibly be brought with mbstring being enabled by > default? > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Mike Robinson <mike@rile.ca> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > > -- > Klaus Silveira > (011) 8564-2492 > www.klaussilveira.com > -- Tom Boutell P'unk Avenue 215 755 1330 punkave.com window.punkave.com