+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. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
