Hi, all.
This mail is just to get an idea about possible future plans (1.6? 2.0?) and/or just make suggestions. The main trigger of this is (at least) some issues about asking to switch some languages to utf-8. The *current* position is not to switch from an existing charset to utf-8, mainly because of some possible data corruption if upgrading from old versions (1.2 seems to handle data ok). Taking that some day these old versions will be totally unsupported (requiring if necessary incremental upgrades to at least 1.2 before the latest version), I think that at some time at the future egw will have to use utf-8 at least as main (even unique) encoding. At this time, non-utf8 installations that need some kind of syncronisation (at least icalsrv, but surely xmlrpc, too) need to do some extra setup to get any of these, because the standard says that data must be encoded in utf-8. Also, this would help to cleanup some code about charset conversion. About the issue of changing the encoding of language files not using utf-8, I would take care of it. About the data, I guess that should be done in tables_update.inc.php in phpgwapi. Another thing I think is in core dev's minds is to keep working on removing the phpgw prefix to be replaced with egw prefix in apps and dependencies. I did some test in the past about it and I didn't find it difficult for the code to use this prefix in the language files. I'd like to know this in order to give a more accurate reply to open tracker items willing to change now the charset, and to provide (if possible) some extra info beyond to just express what I'd like. Regards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ eGroupWare-core mailing list eGroupWare-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/egroupware-core
