Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:69936 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 16030 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2013 11:15:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Oct 2013 11:15:18 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 149.254.49.157 genkt-049-157.t-mobile.co.uk Received: from [149.254.49.157] ([149.254.49.157:7090] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F4/21-10284-4C89F625 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:15:17 -0500 To: internals@lists.php.net,Yasuo Ohgaki Message-ID: <526F98C1.4040607@php.net> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:15:13 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 149.254.49.157 Subject: Re: [RFC] Use default_charset As Default Character Encoding From: krakjoe@php.net (Joe Watkins) On 10/29/2013 10:49 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently, we have many encoding settings. It would be nicer if we have > central encoding settings. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/default_encoding > > The patch is PoC, but the intent would be clear. > Any comments are appreciated. > > Thank you. > > -- > Yasuo Ohgaki > yohgaki@ohgaki.net > I'm not sure what it is you are actually trying to achieve here ?? +1 on the 5.5 changes But the rest I don't really understand what the aim is, it would seem that renaming settings, especially ones that are not actually anything to do with the core, is just breaking compatibility for no good reason. What I could understand is a proposal to move the functionality provided by mbstring/iconv into core and introduce dot script_encoding complementary settings: zend.input_encoding zend.output_encoding I could understand this kind of proposal being aimed at 6. I don't get it ... Cheers Joe