curayacu ~ # grep mbstring /etc/php/cli-php4/php.ini ;extension=php_mbstring.dll [mbstring] ;mbstring.language = Japanese ;mbstring.internal_encoding = EUC-JP ;mbstring.http_input = auto ;mbstring.http_output = SJIS ; mbstring.internal_encoding setting. Input chars are ;mbstring.encoding_translation = Off ;mbstring.detect_order = auto ;mbstring.substitute_character = none; ; overload(replace) single byte functions by mbstring functions. ;mbstring.func_overload = 0 ; With mbstring support this will automatically be converted into the encoding ; given by corresponding encode setting. When empty mbstring.internal_encoding curayacu ~ # cat /etc/php/cli-php4/ext-active cat: /etc/php/cli-php4/ext-active: Is a directory curayacu ~ # cat /etc/php/cli-php4/ext-active