Description of problem: mbstring extension only supports Japanese. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a file that contains phpinfo() function. 2. browse a file via Apache 3. Actual results: (snip) mbstring Multibyte Support enabled Japanese support enabled HTTP input encoding translation enabled Multibyte (japanese) regex support enabled Expected results: (snip) mbstring Multibyte Support enabled Japanese support enabled Simplified chinese support enabled Traditional chinese support enabled Korean support enabled Russian support enabled Multibyte (japanese) regex support enabled Additional info: From http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php, > For PHP 4.3.3 or before, To enable that feature, you will have to supply either > one of the following options to the LANG parameter of --enable-mbstring=LANG; > --enable-mbstring=cn for Simplified Chinese support, --enable-mbstring=tw for > Traditional Chinese support, --enable-mbstring=kr for Korean support, > --enable-mbstring=ru for Russian support, and --enable-mbstring=ja for Japanese > support (default). To enable all supported encoding, use --enable-mbstring=all. php.spec specifies only --enable-mbstring (not --enable-mbstring=all). Therefore mbstring supports only Japanese.
This is fixed in releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and later.