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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:58:05 +0300 (EEST)
To: "Tony Marston" <tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] mb_string.func_overload has secretly been changed 
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From: tokul@users.sourceforge.net ("Tomas Kuliavas")

2009.09.10 11:17 Tony Marston rašė:
>
> ""Tomas Kuliavas"" <tokul@users.sourceforge.net> 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?

Works for me. See SquirrelMail functions/i18n.php set_up_language() function.

-- 
Tomas