Re: RC2RC1
| From: | Wez Furlong | Date: | Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:54:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RC2RC1 | ||
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+1 (and it's already on by default in the win32 build).
--Wez.
> I've one other thing to propose, and that is enabling iconv by default.
> Now you might ask why iconv and not mbstring? Well, that's easy as the
> author of mbstring (Moriyoshi) thinks of moving it to PECL, out of the
> core. Why I think iconv should (and can) be enabled by default is:
>
> - libxml2 which we 'require', requires a working iconv implementation
> (for Linux this is embedded in glibc, for FreeBSD this is the iconv
> library, other Operating Systems of course have some form of
> implementation too).
>
> - conversion between charsets is getting more and more of a problem, and
> to support some of the larger multi-language frameworks a bit better,
> having an implementation in C for this is a very good thing. (There
> are already implementations of conversions out in PHP, which is
> ofcourse awfully slow)
>
> - I am not in favor of enabling things by default *at all*, but I do
> think it's worthwhile to do for iconv.