Re: Re: [VOTE] Multbye char handling - Remove vulnerability related to multibyte short and long term

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > Hi all, > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote: > > > Long term: Alternative implementation of mbstring using ICU > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/altmbstring > > We need multibyte feature as default. However, current mbstring has > > license issues. Resolve license issues by alternative mbstring in the > > future. Introduce mbstring-ng as EXPERIMENTAL module for further > > development, testing, feedback from users. > > All of voters other than me voted no, so far. > I would like hear the reason. The proper way to handle this is language Unicode support. Having *yet another* "UTF-8" extension is not a long term solution. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine