On Mar 14, 2014 3:20 PM, "Nikita Popov" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Nothing is wrong with it, PCRE has very good support for UTF-8 (including
> character properties and extended grapheme clusters). Can we just
deprecate
> mb_ereg? It seems totally useless and just confuses people. If you want to
> match regular expressions on non-UTF-8 just do a conversion beforehand (or
> use a sane encoding right away, you know).
Several years ago mb_ereg was slightly faster than pcre. It could have
changed since then