On 26.03.2010, at 13:39, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 18:08 +0000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>> rasmus                                   Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:08:06 +0000
>> 
>> Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=296685
>> 
>> Log:
>> Switch default_charset, if not specified, from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
>> I have been wanting to make this change for years, but there is a small
>> chance of BC issues, so it shouldn't go into a minor release.
> 
> I in "my world" this isn't just a small chance of a break. Over here
> every application has to deal with non-ASCII characters (äöüßÄÖÜ). Many
> "average" applications don't set the encoding, most don't care. 
> 
> With the environments using more and more Utf-8 (operating system
> environments, editor defaults, ...) the change is good but it is no
> small thing but will cause "trouble" for many users having iso-8859-1
> texts in their database and getting broken pages after the upgrade and
> we should advise users to mind their encodings!
> 
> Fixing applications is easy, getting the knowledge to our users is hard.


I had the same feeling when Rasmus mentioned his change. I think its a good 
chance, but I am not sure if we should include it in a 5.4 if that is the 
version name for the next release.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
m...@pooteeweet.org




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