On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:41:36 +0100 Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sam Geeraerts wrote: > > Sam Geeraerts wrote: > >> Dmitri Gabinski wrote: > >>> Hi! Hi both. > >>> > >>> When trying to edit Russian wiki pages (via Firefox 3.1 beta2, if > >>> that matters), I encounter the following problem: Cyrillic > >>> characters are replaced with HTML surrogates, thus becoming such > >>> chains as Для > >>> удаления и > >>> Editing is is way too labor-consuming and you cannot, for > >>> example, use spell check. > >>> > >>> Look, it’s the XXI century, why not use Unicode? PmWiki is configured to use ISO-8859-1, because that's its default configuration (And I suspect people with funny encoding weren't on Brians mind when he set it up :P) > >> > >> The problem is that the wiki is served with a charset of > >> ISO-8859-1 in the HTTP headers. So all the content up until now > >> has been entered in that encoding. If the server configuration > >> would be changed to UTF-8, all the content would have to be > >> converted to that as well. > > > > I did some research: apparently the conversion can be done with > > recode [1]. Thanks for your looking into this. > > > > There's also a PmWiki recipe to convert input on the fly [2], but I > > think it's only useful if the content is already in UTF-8. It seems > > intended to catch input from a browser that is forced to another > > encoding (or one that can't handle UTF-8). > > > > [1] http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/UTF-8 > > [2] http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/UTF8Conv > > We seem to have two options with PmWiki when it comes to charset to use. Here's a snippet from our config: $WikiTitle = 'PmWiki'; $Charset = 'ISO-8859-1'; $HTTPHeaders = array( "Expires: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT", "Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate", "Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1;"); $CacheActions = array('browse','diff','print'); I can change either or both of these, but I'm not sure what the consequences would be ... kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian user / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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