On Mar 30, 2015 5:29 PM, "Nikita Popov" <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> From this thread, I'd say we have a consensus to deprecate it. From the > Japanese side, both Yasuo and Masaki agree that this should be dropped and > Masaki also linked a bug report where it is stated that the original author > of this functionality agrees that this should be deprecated. It also > contains a link to a discussion on a Japanese PHP dev ML, where, as far as > Google Translate can tell me, everyone agreed that that we should do away > with it. Yes, and if it helps, I asked around here (South Eastern Asia) and could not find anyone using it, not representative but representing quite a lot of companies. > As to what people should use instead: For the quick hack to make things > work: a sed script. Apart from that, implementing proper multibyte handling > in applications. > > Nikita
