I sat on this for a few days and the egg that hatched seems to agree with the concensus....
Keep it INI_SYSTEM. Yes it'll be a little more hassle for hosting providers, but that's the reality of the beast. The fact that unicode semantics *can* be turned off is our consession to the gods of the upgrade path and it providers plenty of maintenance woes already. Complicating this with PERDIR logic is only going to make PHP6 fat, slow, and difficult to maintain/extend. -Sara -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php