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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:06:28 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV][DISCUSSION] Deprecate mbregex in PHP 8.6 and
 maintenance version
To: youkidearitai <youkidearitai@gmail.com>
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From: divinity76@gmail.com (Hans Henrik Bergan)

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On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 at 09:43, youkidearitai <youkidearitai@gmail.com> wrote=
:

> 2025=E5=B9=B48=E6=9C=8826=E6=97=A5(=E7=81=AB) 19:15 Derick Rethans <deric=
k@php.net>:
> >
> > On Mon, 25 Aug 2025, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> >
> > > On 25.08.2025 at 09:26, youkidearitai wrote:
> > >
> > > > I improvement this RFC. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/eol-oniguruma
> > > >
> > > > Added more information about maintenance versions. What do you thin=
k
> > > > about Oniguruma maintenance ended. Please watch and feel free to
> > > > comment.
> > >
> > > First, thank you for caring about this!  I agree that we need a long
> > > term solution for this issue.  As I understand it, Oniguruma's
> > > greatest advantage over PCRE2 is that it supports other character
> > > encodings than Unicode and ANSI, so deprecating mbregex might be a
> > > problem for some users.
>

Which users, exactly?

Where in the wild are people using something other than ANSI, Unicode, and
UTF-8?

Been 10 year since I was involved with a system reliant on Windows-1252,
and the first thing I did after getting hired was to convert it to UTF-8
(Norway, a system written in PHP requiring =C3=A6=C3=B8=C3=A5=C3=86=C3=98=
=C3=85 support running on
Windows-1252~)

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><br></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote g=
mail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Tue, 17 Mar =
2026 at 09:43, youkidearitai &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:youkidearitai@gmail.com"=
>youkidearitai@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail=
_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204=
,204);padding-left:1ex">2025=E5=B9=B48=E6=9C=8826=E6=97=A5(=E7=81=AB) 19:15=
 Derick Rethans &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:derick@php.net" target=3D"_blank">der=
ick@php.net</a>&gt;:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On Mon, 25 Aug 2025, Christoph M. Becker wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; On 25.08.2025 at 09:26, youkidearitai wrote:<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; I improvement this RFC. <a href=3D"https://wiki.php.net/rfc/=
eol-oniguruma" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://wiki.php.net/rf=
c/eol-oniguruma</a><br>
&gt; &gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; Added more information about maintenance versions. What do y=
ou think<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; about Oniguruma maintenance ended. Please watch and feel fre=
e to<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; comment.<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; First, thank you for caring about this!=C2=A0 I agree that we nee=
d a long<br>
&gt; &gt; term solution for this issue.=C2=A0 As I understand it, Oniguruma=
&#39;s<br>
&gt; &gt; greatest advantage over PCRE2 is that it supports other character=
<br>
&gt; &gt; encodings than Unicode and ANSI, so deprecating mbregex might be =
a<br>
&gt; &gt; problem for some users.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which=
 users, exactly?=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>Where in the wild are peopl=
e using something other than ANSI, Unicode, and UTF-8?<br><br>Been 10 year =
since I was involved with a system reliant on Windows-1252, and the first t=
hing I did after getting hired was to convert it to UTF-8<br>(Norway, a sys=
tem written in PHP requiring =C3=A6=C3=B8=C3=A5=C3=86=C3=98=C3=85 support r=
unning on Windows-1252~)</div></div></div>

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