Arnulf Christl schrieb:
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?
Legacy. If even you consider dropping it, we really should.
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.
In my opinion the server side is responsible for converting incoming
data to UTF8. I mentioned database only, but of course you are right,
there is much more.
Anything that works encoding-wise in Mapbender now is based on pure
chance, so it can't get any worse.
Christoph
+1
Regards, Arnulf.
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