16 Feb
2008
16 Feb
'08
10:03 a.m.
Hi,
my opinion is, make UTF-8 default. I am using xwiki in my national
language, which is Czech. We have some special characters which is not in
latin1.
There is no problem to set utf-8 (except pdf export, because missing fonts
for Czech , i think), but if someone want to use xwiki he must challenge the
setting of encoding. And some people could not handle this. They will leave
xwiki. My friend, want to use xwiki too. And he was unable to set encoding
right. I had to set encoding and he is experienced user. He is satisfied
with xwiki now.
For the databases - you can modify query, which makes tables, so the
setting of tables will be in utf-8. That`s not a problem, i think.
I`m not voting, because i`m not a developer. It`s only my point of view.
Jan
On Feb 16, 2008 9:07 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
On Feb 16, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Le 15 févr. 08 à 19:22, Vincent Massol a écrit :
I believe this is always a question of connection and not of the
database itself. But that's just my hint.
A related but not equal matter is the sorting, or ?
The question is not whether we want it. It's whether it'll work out of
the box or not.
-Vincent
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I think
it is a safe move, as any modern system supports UTF-8
(given
that XWiki requires java 5, we can assume it will be in a modern
system). This has the advantage that the code will be simpler, as we
don't have to check and switch encodings, but has the disadvantage
that
mysql has to be manually configured for UTF-8, as by default it
comes in
latin1.
Isn't this a problem with databases which are configured in ISO8859-1
by default most of the time? Same question for the servlet container.
The servlet container would default to the platform's encoding which
is not always latin1. But I think that the only place this is
relevant is at the encoding for URL-encoded values... and these are
recommended to be utf-8 by the new URI spec.
I do not know if there's any vote I can express but I would strongly
vote with -1 for 1 and 3 and stick to utf-8 for greatest simplicity
and finally really really reach readable URIs.
paul
PS: except for simplicity I have never met anyone refusing to try to
set utf-8 as standard for everything.