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Doc Bug #70806 Cannot determine if mbstring is required in PHP 7
Submitted: 2015-10-28 14:17 UTC Modified: 2015-10-28 17:43 UTC
From: gulliver dot m dot smtih at gmail dot com Assigned: requinix (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 7.0.0RC5 OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-10-28 14:17 UTC] gulliver dot m dot smtih at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/mbstring.requirements
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There are some articles saying that PHP 7 is going to multibyte support, but none of the PHP 7 documentation on the documentation site talks about the implications when upgrading.

Also, it seems that mbstring should no longer be needed. How are the encoding changing functions affected?

If we need to work at the byte level, how is this done?

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 [2015-10-28 17:43 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: requinix
 [2015-10-28 17:43 UTC] requinix@php.net 
I don't know what you've read but there's no documentation about the changes because there are no changes: no direct Unicode support in the engine and mbstring is still around.
 
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