Re: default charset confusion

> > > I would then propose to make mbstring compile time mandatory. > > I'm against yet another global ini setting, I find the actual ini settings > confusing enough to add one more that would moreover reflect mbstring one's > (and add more and more confusion). > Why not turn ext/mbstring mandatory at compile time, for all future PHP > versions, like preg or spl are ? > > We do need multibyte handling either. ZendEngine takes advantage of > mbstring for internal encoding as well, so I probably missed something as > why it is still possible to --disable-mbstring (or not add > --enable-mbstring) when compiling ? Has it a huge performance impact ? > > Thank you :) > > Julien.P > see http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg48452.html http://lxr.php.net/opengrok/xref/PHP_5_4/UPGRADING#91 and http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg53863.html basically the mbstring code in the ZE is only used if you enable zend.multibyte, which is disabled by default, so it isn't mandatory to have ext/mbstring for the default build/setup. as you can see from the last link, I would support having ext/mbstring builtin and always enabled, but I would like to hear from more people about the pros and cons. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu