On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > We need to decide how to handle the charset/encoding in XWiki. We have 3 > options: > > 1. Leave it as it is. The default is ISO-8859-1, and the admin has to > make sure the JVM is started with the correct -Dfile.encoding param. If > another encoding is needed, it has to be changed in 4 places (web.xml, > xwiki.cfg, -Dfile.encoding, database charset+collation) > > 2. Force it to always be UTF-8, overriding the file.enconding setting. > This ensures internationalization, as UTF-8 works with any language. And > 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. > > 3. Keep it configurable, but by only specifying it in one place > (xwiki.cfg or web.xml), and enforcing that encoding in the JVM (by > overriding file.encoding). The default should be UTF-8. > > Here's my +1 for option 2, -1 for option 1, and 0 for option 3. > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >
Don't have more to say that you don't already said and also +1 for option 2, -1 for option 1, and 0 for option 3. -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
