http://dokeoslead.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/mbstring-vs-iconv/ The daily job of Dokeos' lead developer Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:39:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://dokeoslead.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/mbstring-vs-iconv/#comment-120 ywarnier Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:06:31 +0000 http://dokeoslead.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-120 Interesting to know. I just sent a mail to php-general's list to see if there's someone there who knows more about actual benchmarks or anything useful in terms of comparison. Interesting to know. I just sent a mail to php-general’s list to see if there’s someone there who knows more about actual benchmarks or anything useful in terms of comparison.

]]> http://dokeoslead.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/mbstring-vs-iconv/#comment-119 Magento Partner Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:29:38 +0000 http://dokeoslead.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-119 In Zend Framework and applications depending on it like Magento they prefer iconv instead of the old mbstring. Although I guess there are good reasons why Zend has choosen the "new" iconv lib, mbstring has still a lot more and helpful functions to offer. Perhaps Zend will rely on the libiconv in feature PHP releases - just think of mb support in PHP6.... In Zend Framework and applications depending on it like Magento they prefer iconv instead of the old mbstring. Although I guess there are good reasons why Zend has choosen the “new” iconv lib, mbstring has still a lot more and helpful functions to offer.
Perhaps Zend will rely on the libiconv in feature PHP releases - just think of mb support in PHP6….

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