On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Rui Hirokawa wrote: > Yes, I will add some documentation about new settings into PHP manual.
good :) > > You obviously have no idea what mbstring exactly does, as this comments > > makes little sense. mbstring _overloads_ functions which are in > > ext/standard (such as strpos() ). That is a little bit too much magic, > > and thus I like to see the mbstring functions merged into the > > ext/standard functions (for PHP 5). > > I agree with you. > As you said, mbstring _overloads_ functions are a kind of durty hack, > and should be tempolary solution. I hope that strpos() and some other > string functions will be multibyte enable by default in PHP 5. I don't see any reason why not? > strlen() overloaded by mb_strlen might causes some problems because it > is used to measure length of string and to measure length of binary > data. So, a new function to measure string length only (or binary > length only) will be necessary. Sure, I don't think that will be a problem. 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