Hi!
Aren't there any interests on this? If you think PHP 6 is gonna cover all of the functionality that allegedly-cruft mbstring currently provides, that is almost wrong :-p
Could you please explain why PHP6 doesn't provide what mbstring is doing? I.e, let's go over the functions:
mb_parse_str - since detecting encoding doesn't work per RFC, what is the usefulness of this function? Wouldn't PHP 6 do the same with correct charset? mb_str* - shouldn't you in 6 just convert them to unicode and do all string operations with Unicode strings? Also, in 5 isn't there some intersection with grapheme_* functions? mb_output_handler - shouldn't setting the proper encoding in 6 do the same job? mb_convert_encoding - don't we already have a number of functions that do encoding conversions?
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