[dev] iconv and mbstring

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> We could, sure, but does that make sense? The iconv library and mbstring are
> moving targets and we can't know what charsets will be supported in what
> version compiled into the current PHP. And hopefully both will continue to
> support more and more charsets.

Well, it seems like a relatively high performance penalty to pay, which is why I
brought it up. But generally I agree with your thinking here.

> I guess I can ask the iconv guys if there is a reason why they don't support
> utf7-imap and if it's a political decision so that we can make an exception
> for this certain case.

Sounds good.

-chuck

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