Re: Re: [VOTE] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote: > Hi Nikita, > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> All items mentioned in the RFC are removed now, excepting the >> mbstring/iconv encoding settings. I tried doing that, but it looks like the >> new encoding settings don't actually work. I also noticed that they were >> introduced under the names XYZ_encoding instead of php.XYZ_encoding, as the >> RFC says. > > > I'm not sure what do you mean by "I also noticed that they were > introduced under the names XYZ_encoding instead of php.XYZ_encoding, as the > RFC says." because > I cannot take a look at code now. > > Anyway, I have work in progress patch for it. However, I noticed that I > need > additional functions for iconv. > > http://php.net/manual/en/book.iconv.php > > iconv does not have functions set input/output/internal encoding for > temporary > purpose. e.g. To process external inputs that have encoding other than > global > setting. My work is stopped by this. > > Proper resolution for this would be introducing functions that set > input/output/internal > encoding for iconv. > > If nobody objects, I'll add these and finish my patch. > Maybe we should just keep the mbstring and iconv ini settings (and undeprecate them)? If we retain the ability to set a per-extension encoding, we may just as well allow setting it via ini setting instead of extra functions. I think dropping these only makes sense if we drop the ability to have mbstring-specific or iconv-specific encoding settings altogether. Nikita