On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 08:04 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > On 03/26/2010 05:39 AM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 18:08 +0000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >> rasmus Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:08:06 +0000 > >> > >> Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=296685 > >> > >> Log: > >> Switch default_charset, if not specified, from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 > >> I have been wanting to make this change for years, but there is a small > >> chance of BC issues, so it shouldn't go into a minor release. > > > > I in "my world" this isn't just a small chance of a break. Over here > > every application has to deal with non-ASCII characters (äöüßÄÖÜ). Many > > "average" applications don't set the encoding, most don't care. > > > > With the environments using more and more Utf-8 (operating system > > environments, editor defaults, ...) the change is good but it is no > > small thing but will cause "trouble" for many users having iso-8859-1 > > texts in their database and getting broken pages after the upgrade and > > we should advise users to mind their encodings! > > > > Fixing applications is easy, getting the knowledge to our users is hard. > > Well, they don't necessarily have to fix their application. They can > just put: default_charset=iso-8859-1 in their php.ini.
If they have access to the file, which many users don't have. And I don't object to the change, just want to get some more awareness about the impact. johannes p.s. sorry for CC'ing internals-win, not internals, my completion went wrong. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
