I think the idea was "no php.ini switch, but the question what "foo" should produce - IS_UNICODE or IS_STRING is still open for consideration".
"foo" alone should produce IS_STRING. The real question IMHO is how far back do you backport tolerance for a unicode cast.
- Steph
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