On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 20:19 +0200, Cornelius Weiss wrote: > Hi Oscar, > > i like the idea of having only utf-8 as charset all over egw! I'm not a > charset expert, but afaik utf-8 covers all languages out there. i also > see the point of simplification. > Also the idea of incemental upgrading is fine for me. Maybe we can drop > all our historically updatescripts now in trunk.
My 4 years experience in developing Chinese online systems and websites using UTF-8: definitely no problem! Some webdev & web designer don't use UTF-8 for Chinese simply because they are afraid of potentional compatibility issues that doesn't exist! I'd also say Chinese traditional also have no problem with UTF-8. Both Chinese simplified and Traditional switched to UTF-8 on their own lang files about two years ago. > > As for the phpgw -> egw transition in langfiles, i would say: just go ahad! > > cu > conny > > Oscar Manuel Gómez Senovilla schrieb: > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice http://www.realss.com +86 592 2091112 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
