Hello Guys/Gals, On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> I want to roll RC2RC1. There are three major changes I think we should get > out of the door ASAP: 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. regards, Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
