I think the ini directive, while adding another to the list, may be the most unobtrusive method to address this issue, at least for developers.
I definitely agree with Rasmus that this could be one of the bigger headaches in transitioning to 5.4 (for non-UTF8 sites) and unless we can come up with a better solution, I say let's move forward with it for 5.4.1. - Mike On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <ras...@lerdorf.com> wrote: > On 03/12/2012 03:05 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > > Hi > > > > I think following PHP 5.4.0 NEWS entry is misleading. > > > > . Changed default value of "default_charset" php.ini option from > ISO-8859-1 to > > UTF-8. (Rasmus) > > Yes, I have fixed that now. > > > I thought default_charset became UTF-8, so I was expecting > > following HTTP header. > > > > content-type text/html; charset=UTF-8 > > > > However, I got empty charset (missing 'charset=UTF-8'). > > So I looked up to source and found the line in SAPI.h > > > > 293 #define SAPI_DEFAULT_CHARSET "" > > > > Empty string should be "UTF-8", isn't it? > > No, we can't force an output charset on people since it would end up > breaking a lot of sites. > > > - php.ini's default_charset should be UTF-8. > > - determine_charset() should not blindly default to UTF-8 when there > > are no hint. > > > > Old htmlentities/htmlspecialchars actually determines charset from > > default_charset/mbstring.internal_encoding/etc. I think old behavior > > is better than now. > > > > How about make determine_charset() behaves like 5.3 and set the > > SAPI_DEFAULT_CHARSET to "UTF-8"? > > PHP 5.3's determine_charset behaves exactly like 5.4's. In 5.3 we have: > > if (charset_hint == NULL) > return cs_8859_1; > > and in 5.4 we have: > > if (charset_hint == NULL) > return cs_utf_8; > > So there is no difference in their guessing when there is no hint, the > only difference is that in 5.4 we choose utf8 and in 5.3 we choose > 8859-1 in that case. > > -Rasmus > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- ----------------------- "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you." John 15:12 -----------------------
