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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:52:47 +0300
To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RC2RC1
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

Derick,

Can you commit a patch so that I can roll it tomorrow?

Thanks,

Andi

At 08:34 PM 4/13/2004 +0200, Derick Rethans wrote:
>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