Japanese multibyte encoding and Unicode, and some singlebyte encodings
are supported by mbstring up to PHP 4.2.x.
From 4.3.x, the Korean and Chinese multibyte encoding are also supported,
and the language setting is introduced.
You should define mbstring.language in php.ini,
mbstring.language = J
I've noticed some different behavior between mbstring versions 4.2.2 and
4.3.9 -- both on RedHat 8 -- in terms of how internal encoding affects
the script.
In 4.2.2, the encoding translation appeared to work okay and would
convert Shift_JIS into UTF-8 on incoming requests. We didn't try any
other
