Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:45548 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14613 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2009 08:17:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Sep 2009 08:17:20 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.177.120.119 marston-home.demon.co.uk Received: from [80.177.120.119] ([80.177.120.119:15848] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4A/C8-06945-E06B8AA4 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:17:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4A.C8.06945.E06B8AA4@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Reply-To: "Tony Marston" References: <83.35.38554.204D7AA4@pb1.pair.com> <40100.4e3f9432.1252518200.nsm@avilys.eik.lt> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:17:14 +0100 Lines: 34 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5843 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-Posted-By: 80.177.120.119 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] mb_string.func_overload has secretly been changed from PERDIR to SYSTEM From: tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk ("Tony Marston") ""Tomas Kuliavas"" wrote in message news:40100.4e3f9432.1252518200.nsm@avilys.eik.lt... > 2009.09.09 19:12 Tony Marston rase: >> I have reported this problem in http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49238. It >> would appear that this option, which was first made available in PHP >> 4.2.0, >> has been silently dropped. Apparently the decision was made in order to >> fix >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43227, but nothing was explicitly stated >> in >> the bug report, nor in any release notes, and the documentation still has >> not been updated to reflect this change even after 6 months. >> >> This causes a problem if your site is on a shared server and you don't >> have >> access to either php.ini or httpd.conf. If this option is turned off by >> default, then how do you turn it on? If it is on by default then how do >> you turn it off? It needs to be turned off for phpMyAdmin otherwise it >> will issue a message warning about possible data corruption. > > I think you can turn off mbstring overloading by setting internal mbstring > encoding to 'pass'. Instead of turning mbstring overloading on you should > use mbstring functions. You THINK it can be turned off this way? That's not good enough. Does it actually work? Where is it documented? -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org