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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] --enable-zend-multibyte
From: info@tyrael.hu (Ferenc Kovacs)

2010/7/30 Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu>:
> 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
>

sorry, that was some crazy signature. :)
About your other notes abou the --enable-zend-multibyte : if it
changes more than this behavior, then I'm in favor leaving this as is,
but discarding the BOM from by default.

Tyrael