+1 (would have preferred to have the first time install wizard which could have warned admins but it's not there yet).
-Vincent On Apr 27, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > Hi devs, > > We've been tackling this proposal for some time, but we never took a > final decision on it. So, I propose that we do this switch as soon as > possible. > > Changes: > - default encoding UTF-8 in the start_xwiki* scripts, xwiki.cfg and > web.xml > - remove the LANG= environment variable from the start script, since > it's not needed > - add the encoding configuration for the mysql jdbc connection URL > (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connector-j-reference-charsets.html > ) > > Implications: > - hsqldb instances will continue to work fine > - for mysql and other DB instances, either the DB will need to be > changed to work with the new encoding, or the wiki will have to be > changed back to 8859-1. If we append characterEncoding=UTF-8 to the > connection URL, then the storage will throw exceptions when trying to > store an incompatible character, thus admins will quickly notice the > problem and solve the issue, before users report loosing characters > after a while (since without this setting the characters are silently > transformed to '?' and this won't be noticed until the cache expires). > > We need to highlight this change in the release notes and upgrade > instructions. > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
