Plus, as far as I know, UTF-8 is the standard we are using everywhere else in OpenMRS so best to stick to that for compatibility reasons.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Burke Mamlin Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OPENMRS-DEV] UTF-8 or ISO8859-1 Joaquín, Sorry for my curt reply... I'm catching up on e-mails post-holiday and wanted to get you an answer quickly. I believe UTF-8 is more future-proof based on greater/increasing adoption and its ability to handle more languages. By limiting itself to Latin languages, ISO 8859-1 text is smaller, but in turn limits localization to Latin languages. Go with UTF-8... everybody's doing it. :-) -Burke On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Burke Mamlin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: UTF-8 On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Joaquín Blaya <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hey guys, I know we've had this discussion before, but we're making changes to the reporting compatibility module to translate it completely in spanish, and we're back to the problem of deciding whether to code in UTF-8 or ISO8859-1, which should we use? Joaquín ___________________________________________________________________ Gerente de Desarrollo, eHealth Systems<http://www.ehs.cl/> Research Fellow, Escuela de Medicina de Harvard<http://hms.harvard.edu/> Moderador, GHDOnline.org<http://www.ghdonline.org/> ________________________________ Click here to unsubscribe<mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l> from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list
