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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] default charset confusion
From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev)

Hi!

> What we really need is what we added in PHP 6. A runtime encoding ini
> setting that is distinct from the output charset which we can use here.
> That would allow people to fix all their legacy code to a specific
> runtime encoding with a single ini setting instead of changing thousands
> of lines of code. I propose that we add such a directive to 5.4.1 to
> ease migration.

One more charset INI setting? I'm not sure I like this. We have tons of 
INIs already, and adding a new one each time we change something makes 
both writing applications and configuring servers harder.
But as the manual says, ISO-8859-1 and  UTF-8  are the same for 
htmlspecialchars() - is it wrong? If yes, what exactly is the different 
between old and new behavior? I tried to read #61354 but could make 
little sense out of it, it lacks expected result and I have hard time 
understanding what is the problem there. Could you explain?

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