Derick pretty much said it for me... but more explicitly, mbstring isn't stable enough to be default.
-- james > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 6:41 AM > To: Masaki Fujimoto > Cc: James Cox; Wez Furlong; Php-Dev > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] mbstring > > > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Masaki Fujimoto wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > let me vote not to remove mbstring (as a default one). > > I'd vote for setting it off by default _for now_, and enable it after > 4.3. has branched, so we have a kick ass i18n solution in PHP5 replacing > all code it duplicates. > > > yes, I can understand the thought that singlebyte users seem mbstirng > > module is somehow 'extra' one. > > > > but please understand that this module is indispensable for multibyte > > users (at least), and AFAIK there are growing numbers of multibyte users > > of PHP. we japanese, korean and chinese have to handle 3 (or more) types > > of encoding (+ UNICODE), and we cannot even count number characters (not > > bytes) w/out mbstring. > > > > besides, I (we?) always make best effort that multibyte features do not > > harm any other ones, and if it causes bugs, we (Yasuo, Rui or I) will > > fix it ASAP (maybe:). > > Too bad that you can't predict anything. > > > > > of course we can --enable-mbstring even if msbstirg is disabled by > > default, but please remember that not all the users can always exec > > 'configure' and edit php.ini. (use dl() ? hmm...) > > Every respectable sysadm in eastern countries installing PHP should be > aware fo this and enable mbstring for his users. > > > > > finally, it is true that mbstring is not the 'golden bullet':), but it > > would be far better if we have some kind of bullets, isn't it ? > > Derick > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > Did I help you? http://www.derickrethans.nl/link.php?url=giftlist > Frequent ranting: http://www.derickrethans.nl/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > PHP: Scripting the Web - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > All your branches are belong to me! > SRM: Script Running Machine - www.vl-srm.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
