php.ini is a global setting you probably don't have access to however you should be able to edit the .htaccess file in your drupal directory.
To add a php.ini setting into the .htaccess file add a line like this:
php_flag setting value
For example in the php.ini file you might have a line like "register_globals = off" which in a .htaccess file would look like "php_flag register_globals off".
What you probably want to add is this:
php_flag mbstring.http_input auto
I'm not sure what the error you're getting means so you might need to look up the correct value from somewhere else.
Good luck!
Mark
From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Roy Smith Sent: Monday, 12 November 2007 10:15 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] Turning off multibyte support?
I just installed drupal 5.1 on a web hosting provider. When I try to run install.php, I get the error:
Incompatible environment
The following error must be resolved before you can continue the installation process:
Multibyte string input conversion in PHP is active and must be disabled. Check the php.ini mbstring.http_input setting. Please refer to the PHP mbstring documentation http://www.php.net/mbstring for more information. (Currently using Unicode library Error)
It is unclear what I'm supposed to do to fix this. I don't see any php.ini string anywhere in my site directory tree. I'm assuming this is some system global config file (which I don't have access to).
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roy@panix.com