Re: enable mbstring by default

I agree... in fact, most international developers don't know about this. They expect that PHP supports unicode by default, creating faulty software. Sad but true. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Tom Boutell <tom@punkave.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Klaus Silveira (011) 8564-2492 www.klaussilveira.com