Zitat von Ilia Alshanetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On December 12, 2003 05:38 pm, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote: > > And I don't think fgetcsv() is an exception, since htmlentities() can > > be referred to as an example that is placed in core and > > supports multibyte strings. As I mentioned, purging that kind of > > functionality into the mbstring extension doesn't solve the problem > > in practice by any means. > > htmlentities() is a rather special function it handles not only multibyte > but > a whole lot of diffrent & unusual things. I do not think you can fairly > compare it to fgetcsv(). We have a multibyte extension for people who > need > that functionality, why force it on everyone else? > > > >> 2) IMO speed is not a key factor here. People rather wants > > >> trust-worthy behaviour. > > > > > > When it's a few percent and the changes offer significant > improvements > > > yes, > > > but when were are talking about a performance loss of 250-300% or > more > > > then > > > performance must become a consideration as well. > > > > If there are virtually no ways to improve it, it'd be natural to me > > we dismiss the issue. > > Why does a vast majority of users have to endure degredation in > performance > for functionality that are needed by a few? It's as simple as that. Same > argument applies to basename().
Just a general note on this discussion becoming sort of a "meta"-topic: >From a PHP developers POV, complete charset support should be a key technology for ZE and the standard extensions, as is now XML for PHP5 as a whole. While the comparison might be a bit strange, it even reminds on the relation of these two: The "standard" encoding for XML data is a multibyte charset. But the real problem is, that it's *really* hard for developers outside of the "multibyte" world to understand the ins and outs of these charsets and how to handle them correctly. It was a PITA to make the whole Horde framework charset independent without knowing anything on mb charsets and their support in php. I did this due to popular demand, because there are a *lot* of people using/needing mb charsets. It would be great if others developers wouldn't have to take this steep road, because php would support these out of the box. While writing this message, Rasmus got my point in fewer words. ;-) Jan. -- http://www.horde.org - The Horde Project http://www.ammma.de - discover your knowledge http://www.tip4all.de - Deine private Tippgemeinschaft -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
