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Subject: Re: RFC about automatic template escaping
From: fsb@thefsb.org (Tom Worster)

Hi Daniel,

When I write scripts that need to behave the same independently of the 
value of mbstring.func_overload then I have to remember to be careful 
with the functions it affects. It's a drag. I resent having to write 
things like mb_strlen($str, '8bit') to get a byte-count knowing that the 
scripts would be cleaner and easier to understand if I could dictate the 
value of mbstring.func_overload (or if it had never been invented).

Would your proposal have any sort of similar effect? I mean, would it 
complicate the task of HTML-escaping output when the scripts need to 
work the same regardless of the '__auto_escape' ini setting?

Tom