On Feb 16, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Paul Libbrecht wrote: > > Le 15 févr. 08 à 19:22, Vincent Massol a écrit : > >>> 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? > > 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 ? > >> 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.
The question is not whether we want it. It's whether it'll work out of the box or not. -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
