In default, php doesn't support unicode BOM characters. So if we use the document which has BOM, error occurs. (BOM makes error when we use session/cookie,headers func) simply we can support unicode with '--enable-zend-multibyte' option. :)
We won't add a USE flag for this for now, as it's not used by many people (you're the first ever to mention it), and the PHP developers discourage it's use in production, see [1]. If you need this, just do: EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-zend-multibyte" emerge php and it will emerge PHP while passing that configure switch, resulting in the BOM stuff enabled for you. Best regards, CHTEKK. [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=114536767014998&w=2
