Install the PHP mbstring extension

Posted by adventure on May 4, 2009 at 9:20pm

During the install of Drupal i get the following:

Operations on Unicode strings are emulated on a best-effort basis. Install the PHP mbstring extension for improved Unicode support. (Currently using Unicode library Standard PHP)

I have looked through countless messages and really no solid answers.

I am running

MySQL 5.1.34
Dropal 6.11
IIS 7
PHP 5.2

I have made changes to the PHP.ini file with recommendations from the forum with no solution.

is there a simple walk through for this?

Thanks.

Comments

I guess it's better...

Posted by PepeMty on May 4, 2009 at 10:53pm

...if you just ask your hosting company to fix this. Most of the times they will.

Warm regards from sunny México!
:-)
Pepe

Warm regards from sunny México!
Pepe
:-)

this is a local install

Posted by adventure on May 4, 2009 at 11:34pm

Sorry I should have said this was a local install. I have worked on this all day. Why is this so hard? Considering the help the other users have received on this install issue, I have a feeling I should just give up.

Giving up on mbstring

Posted by cog.rusty on May 5, 2009 at 12:27am

Giving up on mbstring shouldn't be a serious problem. I have been running Greek-language sites (all content is multibyte) in both PHP 4 and PHP 5 on shared hosts without mbstring without the slightest problem.

Seriously now, there are better places than drupal.org to find help on installing mbstring, because it is more relevant to PHP itself and to your OS, but you can start from these:

http://php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php
http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.extensions.php