Hi!
If you are a framework developer, and really want to shield against a bad php.ini setting, you could ini_set() to your prefered charset at the beginning of the request.
That assuming "the request" is completely processed by your framework and you never call any outside code and any outside code never calls you - otherwise your messing with INI setting may very well break that code or that code's messing with INI settings may very well break yours.
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