Re: Deprecate or remove mbstring function overloads in PHP 7

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I was never happy about this particular hack but that said, unless we > *know* it is not used widely (and I suspect it is in Japan etc. where we > don't have a lot of visibility due to language barrier) we can't really > remove it. > Also, I'm not sure why should we remove it. Yes, it's a PITA for the > code, but looking at it in another direction, it is only a PITA if > people actually turn it on, which means they're using it (otherwise why > turn it on?). Deprecating it may be ok provided we actually have some > proposal as to what people should do instead. > > If we have consensus on deprecating it, I don't think it's a problem > have it done in 7.0 since it's not a substantial code/feature change and > beta period provides ample time for people to scream if it's > unacceptable. If there's no consensus yet, I'd go for 7.1. > From this thread, I'd say we have a consensus to deprecate it. From the Japanese side, both Yasuo and Masaki agree that this should be dropped and Masaki also linked a bug report where it is stated that the original author of this functionality agrees that this should be deprecated. It also contains a link to a discussion on a Japanese PHP dev ML, where, as far as Google Translate can tell me, everyone agreed that that we should do away with it. As to what people should use instead: For the quick hack to make things work: a sed script. Apart from that, implementing proper multibyte handling in applications. Nikita