Re: [PHP-DEV] enable mbstring by default

2011-10-17 Thread Klaus Silveira
I agree... in fact, most international developers don't know about this. They expect that PHP supports unicode by default, creating faulty software. Sad but true. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Tom Boutell wrote: > Will PHP really never, ever, ever be unicode by default? It'll always > be a

Re: [PHP-DEV] enable mbstring by default

2011-10-17 Thread Tom Boutell
Will PHP really never, ever, ever be unicode by default? It'll always be a weird special case to not be from the shores of the Atlantic? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Klaus Silveira wrote: > What drawbacks could possibly be brought with mbstring being enabled by > default? > > On Thu, Oct 13,

Re: [PHP-DEV] enable mbstring by default

2011-10-13 Thread Klaus Silveira
What drawbacks could possibly be brought with mbstring being enabled by default? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Mike Robinson wrote: > On October-11-11 11:46 AM Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > As the "full" unicode support went down with php6, wouldn't it be a > > logical step to enable the mbstrin

RE: [PHP-DEV] enable mbstring by default

2011-10-13 Thread Mike Robinson
On October-11-11 11:46 AM Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > As the "full" unicode support went down with php6, wouldn't it be a > logical step to enable the mbstring extension by default(maybe even > turning it into a builtin ext like phar)? > I think that mbstring is a pretty mature and stable extension, an