Whew – sorry for the technical title on this one.

I was struggling to enable MultiByte [mbstring] support on my site (GoDaddy virtual Linux hosting) for a little side project, and was running into issues with the then-installed PHP 4.2. I found that it only worked when I upgraded my PHP version to 5.

The upgrade was pretty painless – the only thing I had to do was rename my PHP.INI file to PHP5.INI.

Hope this helps anyone running into similar issues…