Re: Re: [VOTE] Multbye char handling - Remove vulnerability related to multibyte short and long term

From: Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:17:04 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: [VOTE] Multbye char handling - Remove vulnerability related to multibyte short and long term
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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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