On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: > "Nikita Popov" wrote in message > news:CAF+90c9ZCE4rrdtwoqwnBE=u_s4asxhu4n_jia+40oy_gum...@mail.gmail.com... > >> >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I was never happy about this particular hack but that said, unless we >>> *know* it is not used widely (and I suspect it is in Japan etc. where we >>> don't have a lot of visibility due to language barrier) we can't really >>> remove it. >> >> >> >>> Also, I'm not sure why should we remove it. Yes, it's a PITA for the >>> code, but looking at it in another direction, it is only a PITA if >>> people actually turn it on, which means they're using it (otherwise why >>> turn it on?). Deprecating it may be ok provided we actually have some >>> proposal as to what people should do instead. >>> >>> If we have consensus on deprecating it, I don't think it's a problem >>> have it done in 7.0 since it's not a substantial code/feature change and >>> beta period provides ample time for people to scream if it's >>> unacceptable. If there's no consensus yet, I'd go for 7.1. >>> >> >> 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. >> >> 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 > > > But what is "proper" multibyte handling? Where is it documented?
Just to be sure it is clear: We are not talking about deprecating the mbstring extenson, not at all. What we refer to is about deprecating the PHP functions overloading in mbstring. This can be enabled using: http://php.net/manual/en/mbstring.configuration.php#ini.mbstring.func-overload and http://php.net/manual/en/mbstring.overload.php So far, I know nobody outside the original authors actually using it. And I asked quite a lot of companies and devs around here (hint, Asia). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
