+1
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > 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. > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
