On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:16:38 +0100 Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Karl Goetz schreef: > >> I also stumbled upon some interesting comments to consider before > >> using UTF-8 (in scripts/xlpage-utf-8.php): > >> > >> This script configures PmWiki to use utf-8 in page content and > >> pagenames. There are some unfortunate side effects about > >> PHP's utf-8 implementation, however. First, since PHP doesn't > >> have a way to do pattern matching on upper/lowercase UTF-8 > >> characters, WikiWords are limited to the ASCII-7 set, and all > >> links to page names with UTF-8 characters have to be in double > >> brackets. Second, we have to assume that all non-ASCII characters > >> are valid in pagenames, since there's no way to determine which > >> UTF-8 characters are "letters" and which are punctuation. > > > > That sounds like a problem. > > Guess we'll have to look into encodings that are not utf-8. > > I have a test wiki here, but its a different version to the current > > live site (i'll need to setup a copy of the live site pre testing > > all these settings out). > > kk > > > > So you want to separate the wiki into parts with different encoding? No, its not practical to do so. > Sounds like about as much trouble as moving to utf-8 with it's > problems. I guess it also depends on whether those issues could break > the wiki or merely be an inconvenience. It seems like quite an inconvenience (which has to be balanced against the inconvenience of having a screen full of HTML codes i suppose). I'm mildly worried about the security issues of having pmwiki assume all input characters are legit. Hope that's been taken care of in code though. 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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