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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] --enable-zend-multibyte
From: info@tyrael.hu (Ferenc Kovacs)

2010/7/29 Johannes Schl=C3=BCter <johannes@schlueters.de>:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 21:26 +0200, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Could we set the --enable-zend-multibyte configure option to be
>> enabled by default for the trunk?
>> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=3D22108
>
> Ignoring the BOF might cause not expected behavior: Assume people are
> using PHP as "templating" language and want the BOM to go out to the
> client. So the fix for this might be to store the BOM, then wait till
> the first other output is being made and then send BOM+output. This
> would cost some little parsing time and maybe a bit more.
>
> The Zend Multibyte mode has a few more effects, like changing the
> encoding of parsed files in memory etc. which cost time and might have
> other consequences, this should be kept as a feature for the ones
> knowing what it does (they actually might document it better ;-))
>
> johannes
>
>

Do you think that this is a common scenario?
Apart from a case, when I had to create utf-8 csv files for Microsoft
Excel, I never needed to send BOM from php, and for that particular
case, I sent it with an explicit echo, not with an "invisible" control
sequence in my code.

Tyrael

Tyrael

Tyrael