Re: Re: [VOTE] Multbye char handling - Remove vulnerability related to multibyte short and long term
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Long term: Alternative implementation of mbstring using ICU
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/altmbstring
> > We need multibyte feature as default. However, current mbstring has
> > license issues. Resolve license issues by alternative mbstring in the
> > future. Introduce mbstring-ng as EXPERIMENTAL module for further
> > development, testing, feedback from users.
>
> All of voters other than me voted no, so far.
> I would like hear the reason.
The proper way to handle this is language Unicode support. Having *yet
another* "UTF-8" extension is not a long term solution.
cheers,
Derick
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