On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 10:08 PM Kamil Tekiela <tekiela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we really do not need to keep these functions. As for the > alternative that we can offer, iconv seems to be doing exactly the same > thing and even better. mb_convert_encoding does the same but also silently > ignores invalid characters. So we already offer plenty of alternatives. We > don't need to add anything new. > Just a quick reminder that it's possible to compile PHP without mbstring and intl, which means that some hosts will provide PHP without these extensions, and some packagers make them available as separate packages that users can't or don't know how to install. Maybe we've got an opportunity to think about making these extensions mandatory? -- Best regards, Max Semenik
