Christoph Baudson wrote:
Arnulf Christl schrieb:
Christoph Baudson wrote:
This is a proposal to serve UTF-8 encoded HTML pages only. In my opinion there is no need to serve ISO-8859-1 pages.

All character set conversions (when interacting with a database) could be done in PHP. So the architecture would change from

client: ISO/UTF8
server: UTF8
database: ISO/UTF8

to

client: ISO/UTF8
server: UTF8
database: ISO/UTF8

This will simplify things a lot and would make Mapbender less error-prone. If anyone has any reason why we should still serve ISO pages, please step up. I have no idea why we should.

Thanks,

Christoph

You confuse me, I cannot see the difference?

neither do I.

Here's what I meant

client: UTF8
server: UTF8
database: ISO/UTF8

Christoph

nr: copy and paste for beginners

I am just wondering - what is the reason that we need an ISO database dump at 
all? Why do we have it?

Obviously all who currently have an ISO database would need to convert to UTF8 and this is painful but if we can implement a good migration path this should be manageable. Unfortunately the Mapbender architecture is way more complex than just client, server and database. What happens to WMS that serve ISO encoded FeatureInfo results through the Mapbender tunnel. Or if you have one ISO and one UTF8 in the tunnel? WFS with GML that contains ISO encoded text. The full set of encoding trouble is a quite a stack indeed.
If it is just the three mentioned layers I am all in favor.

+1

Regards, Arnulf.

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