+1 for utf-8 only. Ok to wait till 5.0 unless there are good migrations.
> To be able to answer I need to understand more. For example what currently > doesn't work with any encoding the user wants to use? Shouldn't we just be > transparent and use whatever encoding is specified and not hardcode anything? Unfortunately, this has been a dream that never comes true that has never been sufficiently tested. I know for sure that both Solr and XWiki will remain imperfect at some edge cases which few people test if their application-level-configured encoding differs from the platform-encoding. XWiki may well have thought well about this since its developers pay attention to deprecations often, there's a zillion remaining other places where this is not done as cleanly. Sergiu, I understand your proposal to include a validation of the environment at startup, is that correct? Including a validation of the DB abilities? paul >> We've moved more and more toward an UTF-8-only application, and XWiki >> has only been tested with this configuration for several years. >> >> I propose that we require UTF-8 for a valid, supported installation. >> This means: >> - JVM encoding (-Dfile.encoding=UTF8) >> - Container default URL encoding (Tomcat has ISO-8859-1 by default) >> - Database encoding (MySql is still configured with latin1 on some distros) >> >> There's one big site to update on our side: xwiki.org. >> >> Here's my +1. This is a move toward a future web, since more and more >> standards require (or at least assume as a default) UTF-8. >> >> >> >> After thinking a bit more, it would make sense to require a valid >> Unicode encoding, including UTF-16, which is preferable in countries >> that don't use a latin alphabet. However, XWiki doesn't currently work >> under 16-bit encodings at all. > > For XWiki 4.x I'm -1 since it's a big change and we don't want to break our > users that currently use 4.x with ISO8859-1 for example > > For XWiki 5.x I'm not sure. > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
