[wp-hackers] Setting mbstring auto encoding conversion for WordPress?

[drDave]

Hello,

I've noticed a few issues with comments and trackbacks not being sent  
with the correct encoding... part of it due to pure browser issues, but  
nonetheless quite annoying...
So I was wondering what prevented us to do something as simple as  
enabling mbstring auto-conversion and sets its encoding to UTF-8 using  
an htaccess file... especially since this would in no way affect users  
that do not have mbstring installed (the htaccess directive would just  
be ignored). Possibly also add some ini_set in wp-settings.php...

Since there's quite a lot of things to say, I've posted a full entry on  
my suggestions and the issues to consider:
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/08/14/helping-wordpress- 
deal-with-exotic-text-encoding/

I would love to hear anybody's opinion on this small hack that seem to  
solve every encoding issues in the most elegant (and compatible) way,  
as far as I can see...

Cheers,
-- 
Dave / デイヴ
drdave at unknowngenius.com