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

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