Hi, I think motivation of
/* Default is now UTF-8 */ if (charset_hint == NULL) return cs_utf_8; is for better performance and I think it's good for better performance. Alternative of my suggestion is introduce new php.ini entry as Rusmus mentioned. The name may be "default_html_escape_encoding"? We should document this behavior very well, since it affects all of non UTF-8 web sites. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohg...@ohgaki.net -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php