Andrei Zmievski wrote:
At the PHP Conference in Germany several of us have discussed the
current state of mbstring and there was a proposal to not have it
enabled by default for 4.3.0 release. It seems that the extension
attempts to do magic stuff by overloading functions in the executor
globals
PHP 4.3.0's Zend Engine also comes with SJIS awareness. It does not
make sense to have SJIS awareness without mbstring also.
(Need compile option to enable SJIS awareness)
In addition, we'll have to take in account all of the double byte encodings
in which second bytes of characters spans GL
