Open Zegnat opened 9 years ago
There'll never be an end to the crazy backwards server configurations out there :) Noted.
Although it is available from PHP 4.0.6 onward, it has never actually been enabled by default:
mbstring is a non-default extension. This means it is not enabled by default. You must explicitly enable the module with the configure option.
Who knew‽ Every NNF bug report helps me learn a new thing about PHP 😉
You know that phrase "If it's stupid, but it works, it's not stupid"? That's PHP. It makes no sense, but it does the job well.
NoNonsenseForum is pretty good at warning people when their servers do not support running it. E.g. Apache version, PHP version, permissions… I think people should be warned when multibyte string functions are unavailable as well.
The transliterator has many layers of dependencies, but other parts are completely reliant on
mb_
-functions.Sparked by NNFNewbie over at the forum.