Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:6385 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12636 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Dec 2003 00:24:58 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12527 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2003 00:24:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO asuka.nerv) (24.112.18.98) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2003 00:24:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 6355 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2003 19:20:07 -0000 Received: from rei.nerv (HELO dummy.com) (rei@192.168.1.1) by asuka.nerv with SMTP; 12 Dec 2003 19:20:07 -0000 Reply-To: ilia@prohost.org Organization: Prohost.org To: Rasmus Lerdorf , PHP Internals Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:36:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <25BBBBC2-2CD2-11D8-8FCC-000A95CE0C62@at.wakwak.com> <200312121823.54634.ilia@prohost.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <200312121936.12442.ilia@prohost.org> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Regarding the latest patch on fgetcsv() (stable branch) From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) On December 12, 2003 07:02 pm, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Ilia, we need to try to avoid this sort of thinking. This "vast majority" > is most likely only a "vocal majority" these days. It is very likely that > the non-mb users are actually the "few" and if we continue along your way > of thinking then we need to have an ext/singlebyte that implements all > these weird singlebyte string manipulation functions. There is a good chance you are correct. However my assumption is not without bases, please consider the following statistic: Google finds 185,000 (or so) phpinfo() pages, when mbstring is added to the search query only 8150 pages are found. That leads me to believe that 1/2% of that userbase uses mbstring. Even if we were to say that of all the people who have mbstring compiled use it (which is highly unlikely) it's still only 1/2%. Ilia