diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e99a325b8..250759444 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ $Source$
     * db_details_export.php3, db_details_links.php3, Documentation.html,
       sql.php3, tbl_properties_export.php3, libraries/common.lib.php3,
       libraries/select_lang.lib.php3: fixes from Loic
+    * config.inc.php3: default value for $cfg['AllowAnywhereRecoding'] = FALSE;
+      to avoid problems on multithreaded servers, thanks to Neil Darlow
+      (ndarlow)
+    * libraries/charset_conversion.lib.php3: remove the "@" before dl()
+      because multithreaded servers don't support dl(), and we want
+      to see the error message, thanks to /Leblanc
+
 
 2002-07-14 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * Documentation.html, db_details_exports.php3, tbl_properties_export.php3:
diff --git a/libraries/charset_conversion.lib.php3 b/libraries/charset_conversion.lib.php3
index b39a54723..a2257862f 100644
--- a/libraries/charset_conversion.lib.php3
+++ b/libraries/charset_conversion.lib.php3
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ if (!defined('PMA_CHARSET_CONVERSION_LIB_INCLUDED')){
 
     /**
      * Loads the recode or iconv extensions if any of it is not loaded yet
+     *
+     * (do not put a "@" before the dl() because we want to see the error
+     * message: multithreaded web servers don't support dl() but we cannot
+     * detect if the server is multithreaded, and under PHP 4.2.1 at least,
+     * it reports that the function dl exists...)
      */
     if (isset($cfg['AllowAnywhereRecoding'])
         && $cfg['AllowAnywhereRecoding']
@@ -25,9 +30,9 @@ if (!defined('PMA_CHARSET_CONVERSION_LIB_INCLUDED')){
             } else {
                 $suffix = '.so';
             }
-            @dl('recode' . $suffix);
+            dl('recode' . $suffix);
             if (!@extension_loaded('recode')) {
-                @dl('iconv' . $suffix);
+                dl('iconv' . $suffix);
                 if (!@extension_loaded('iconv')) {
                     echo $strCantLoadRecodeIconv;
                     exit();