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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:11:36 +0200
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Subject: Multibyte and declate (PHP5.4)
From: sebastian.krebs.berlin@googlemail.com (Sebastian Krebs)

Hi,

With PHP5.4 I get this warning

| Warning: declare(encoding=...) ignored because Zend multibyte feature
| is turned off by settings in [..]

because of

| declare(encoding = 'UTF-8');

An except from the manual [1]

> The encoding declare value is ignored in PHP 5.3 unless php is compiled with --enable-zend-multibyte.

Does this really means, that this declare statement is _ignored_, when 
PHP is _not_ compiled with "--enable-zend-multibyte", but it yields a 
warning (and not even just a notice), when it is (what is default now)? 
That feels a little bit inconsistent to me.

And btw: Its probably asked before, but is there a reason, why 
multibyte-support is disabled by default?

Regards,
Sebastian

[1] http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.declare.php