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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:34:02 +0200 (CEST)
To: Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RC2RC1
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

Hello Guys/Gals,

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote:

> I want to roll RC2RC1. There are three major changes I think we should get
> out of the door ASAP:

I've one other thing to propose, and that is enabling iconv by default.
Now you might ask why iconv and not mbstring? Well, that's easy as the
author of mbstring (Moriyoshi) thinks of moving it to PECL, out of the
core. Why I think iconv should (and can) be enabled by default is:

- libxml2 which we 'require', requires a working iconv implementation
  (for Linux this is embedded in glibc, for FreeBSD this is the iconv
  library, other Operating Systems of course have some form of
  implementation too).

- conversion between charsets is getting more and more of a problem, and
  to support some of the larger multi-language frameworks a bit better,
  having an implementation in C for this is a very good thing. (There
  are already implementations of conversions out in PHP, which is
  ofcourse awfully slow)

- I am not in favor of enabling things by default *at all*, but I do
  think it's worthwhile to do for iconv.

regards,
Derick