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Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_default=5fencoding_RFC_=e2=80=93_aftermath?=
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)

Hi Cristoph,

Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> I'm quite happy, though, that this
> hasn't happened yet, since it seems that the encoding names may be
> different between the extensions.  At least the php.net manual states[2]:
> 
> | Some systems (like IBM AIX) use "ISO8859-1" instead of "ISO-8859-1" so
> | this value has to be used in configuration options and function
> | parameters.
> 
> It appears to be worthwhile to review the deprecation of the respective
> iconv.* ini options.  Not quite sure about the mbstring.* ini options.

Could this not be solved by making all the extensions support all the 
encoding name aliases or so? That wouldn't be difficult to implement and 
wouldn't break anything.

Thanks!

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Andrea Faulds
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