Before we get too far offtopic ( fgetcsv() ) let me just quickly summarize my position. I think it's great that multi-byte support exists in PHP, we have mbstring, iconv and recode extensions that all help make PHP work with multibyte strings. As with most things with PHP the user has a choice of whether or not to enable this functionality depending on their present and future needs. By putting this functionality into core/standard this choice is taken away more over it penalizes (rather significantly) every single user of affected functionality. That is what I'd like to avoid.
Without mbstring enabled, you would not be able to effectively work with multibyte characters. Therefor even if fgetcsv() would work as you may expect with multibyte strings, that data would not be manageable in most cases. Which is why I propose that multibyte version of fgetcsv() be placed inside ext/mbstring as mb_fgetcsv(). Ilia -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
