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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 22:15:48 +0700
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate or remove mbstring function overloads in PHP 7
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Mar 30, 2015 5:29 PM, "Nikita Popov" <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

> From this thread, I'd say we have a consensus to deprecate it. From the
> Japanese side, both Yasuo and Masaki agree that this should be dropped and
> Masaki also linked a bug report where it is stated that the original
author
> of this functionality agrees that this should be deprecated. It also
> contains a link to a discussion on a Japanese PHP dev ML, where, as far as
> Google Translate can tell me, everyone agreed that that we should do away
> with it.

Yes, and if it helps, I asked around here (South Eastern Asia) and could
not find anyone using it, not representative but representing quite a lot
of companies.

> As to what people should use instead: For the quick hack to make things
> work: a sed script. Apart from that, implementing proper multibyte
handling
> in applications.
>
> Nikita

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