[support] Turning off multibyte support?

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, Roy,

In your initial email, you said you had just installed 5.1 -- the 
current version is 5.3, and I strongly recommend using the most current 
version.

RE the mbstring issue, see http://drupal.org/node/132723 and 
http://drupal.org/node/87138

Cheers,

Bill

Mark Mcdonald wrote:
>
> 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 at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] 
> *On Behalf Of *Roy Smith
> *Sent:* Monday, 12 November 2007 10:15 AM
> *To:* support at 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).
>
> --
>
> roy at panix.com <mailto:roy at panix.com>
>


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