Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:117011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60452 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2022 05:10:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (76.75.200.58) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2022 05:10:06 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:26:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.1 Content-Language: pl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 217.172.250.65 Subject: Multibyte strings From: aaatoja@o2.pl (=?UTF-8?Q?Micha=c5=82?=) Message-ID: Hi everyone. It's a known fact that nowadays most websites use at least UTF-8 encoding. Unfortunately PHP itself has stopped a bit in the previous century. Is there any reason why the mbstring extension cannot be introduced to core in the next major version (maybe preceded with a deprecation message like it was with the mysql extension in v5)? All functions from the standard library would become aliases for multibyte equivalents.