16 Jan
2008
16 Jan
'08
10:32 p.m.
FAUX, Emmanuel wrote:
Sorry! I'd failed to find it!
Yeap, this is a clear solution. But to mess directly with databases is
not a great idea... I think :-)
As Vincent stated, XWiki is supposed to admit any character. Provided
that documents created in XWiki are only intended to be accessed by
XWiki or any other database client that will have capacity to correctly
handle encoding stuff, it seems that there is not a single reason to
avoid this "extended characters".
We here try to convince users not to use this characters while naming
files, folders or documents as a rule of thumb to avoid a number of
problems while switching among platforms here and there, working with
computer we can not control the configuration.
But of course it will be great to be able of using any character at
least while sticking to XWiki.
As Vincent does ask, have you configured your XWiki installation for UTF-8?
Thanks!
Ricardo
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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team
Anyway,
don't you think this issue is worth a JIRA issue?
My first issue... XE-182
I supposed a
discussion here is not needed to create such an issue, but I > would like to know if
there is some reason to allow all this characters
like /, \ or ~ that cause problems with documents and attachments names.
Of course it could be considered a naming convention not to use this
characters, but if we/I what to promote the use of XWiki among users that
are not aware of this problems and usually use this characters (and others
like, ñ, á, é, ö,... ) while naming files and folders.
On my side, users upload attachements with é à / ~ in their names because they can and
they are not aware that it causes some troubles later.
Those who were trapped do not include special characters anymore but a new user would
certainly include those characters.
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Emmanuel FAUX