MBSTRING is enabled on all our hosting packages and all our servers.
To customize mbstring function in your server, unless it is customized by .htaccess, it will become 500 Internal Server Error.
If possible, when I can put on the respective directory the htaccess file with.
XOOPS site:
php_flag session.use_trans_sid off
php_value default_charset EUC-JP
php_value mbstring.language Japanese
php_flag mbstring.encoding_translation ON
php_value mbstring.detect_order ASCII,JIS,EUC-JP,SJIS,UTF-8
php_value mbstring.internal_encoding EUC-JP
php_value mbstring.http_input auto
php_value mbstring.http_output pass
php_value mbstring.substitute_character none
php_value output_handler none
php_value default_charset UTF-8
php_value mbstring.language Japanese
php_value mbstring.internal_encoding UTF-8
php_value mbstring.encoding_translation OFF
php_value mbstring.http_input auto
php_value mbstring.http_output pass
Of course, there is an alternative -- mbstring hosting is as well possible using php.ini under your hosting account.
Create a php.ini file inside each folder you would like to have the values set. The file syntax should be similar to the example I will give you here. I will make an example for your XOOPS:
php.ini file in the xoops folder:
[begin]
register_globals = Off;
session.use_trans_sid Off;
default_charset = EUC-JP;
mbstring.language = Japanese;
...
[end]
You will need to copy the php.ini file inside every folder you will probably need the features to be set to.
In case of doubt, contact iNetel Hosting's technical support with subject "hosting mbstring" to receive personalized information on mbstring and how it works in our hosting environment or specifically on your cpanel server.