It's been a few days since the last comments regarding the fgetcsv() in PHP 5.0 and I think it would be an opportune time to decide on a solution for the problem. Based on the various commentary we appear to have 3 alternatives that for better or worse would resolve the situation.
1) Leave things they way they are now, giving everyone a partial support for multibyte string in fgetcsv() and 2-3 performance decrease in all instances. 2) Backport fgetcsv() from 4.3.X tree, giving everyone a fast variant of the function and introduce a fully multibyte mb_fgetcsv() into mbstring extension based on the current fgetcsv() in PHP 5.0. 3) Put the php_mblen macro in php_string.h inside ifdef HAVE_MBSTRING, which would disable multibyte functionality of fgetcsv() for people without mbstring support in their installation. This would just about restore performance and at the same time leave multibyte support for people who need it (use mbstring extension). My personal preference is option #2. Ilia -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
