Re: Re: Default character encoding

Hi Nikita, On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > Context: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/default_encoding > > I'm also a bit concerned about this RFC in general. I think the idea behind > it make sense (consolidate encoding settings), but right now it feels a lot > like http://xkcd.com/927/ (turning 6 ini options into 9). > Especially given > the issue with the different charset names between mbstring and iconv, I'm > not convinced that this will be more help than harm. > Most applications won't mix multibyte char modules. Even if one did, they still can change encoding by setting INI from user scripts. If users use default (UTF-8), it does not matter which multibyte char module they are using. I think too many INI settings bad also. Unneeded INIs should be cleaned up in future version. (PHP6?) > Also, the most important part of the RFC (htmlspecialchars) doesn't seem > reflected in the patch. Is that not yet implemented or did I misunderstand > something? > I'll implement required changes for functions. It's incomplete. I just don't have enough time :( Thank you for the comment. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net