On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 22:17, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote: > > for more > general string functionality, it would be ext/mbstring. > > Thoughts? >
Related to this discussion, please could someone remind me why the mbstring extension is an extension and not part of core PHP? I realise at the time it was introduced, UTF-8 was far less widely used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#/media/File:Utf8webgrowth.svg But now UTF-8 is pretty much the default for the vast majority of projects, so does that decision to keep it as an optional extension still hold up? cheers Dan Ack -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
