On 26 Oct, Ronny Hanssen wrote:
> Hi,
Greetings!
Sorry for this late reply, I'm trying to work my
way through the backlog.
> I've just joined the list and have just finished installing Midgard. I
> haven't had time to do any work yet as I am still busy getting through
> the docs.
Welcome! Hopefully the installation went well...
> I found an entry in the FAQ stating that no work has been done within
> the area of implementing support for several charsets yet. I am not sure
> if this will pose a problem for me and my team yet, and wanted to hear
> what you 'veterans' have to say about it.
Yes, currently the main Midgard branch supports only
the iso-latin1 character set, but this can be easily
changed to some other charset. For example, the Russian
Midgard announced some time ago contains good examples
on how to do this.
> The translated applications will run on a separate machines which will
> have mysql compiled with another charset (according to mysql docs this
> should be possible, just remember to reindex before use...)
> The question is if the Midgard application will handle the other
> charsets or if I should expect problems...
It should work as long as you change the character set
individually for each server and then compile your Midgard
with those modifications there.
I guess the character set the be used with Midgard will
become a configure option in future versions, though. Jukka
has said that he'll try to roll the modifications of the
Russian Midgard back in to the main Midgard branch.
> I am not even sure if I understand the charset problem fully... The way
> I see it the chars are stored on the storage medium using a char#. This
> number represents different characters depending on the charset, right?
The character set problem is mostly related to how Midgard
handles content (articles, text parsing, etc)
> I reckon that URLs are guaranteed to mean the same, no matter where in
> the world you are, and that I therefore can expect to understand the
> characters here (and the params sent with it).
That should be correct. You'll probably want to wait
for a confirmation from someone who has actually used
Midgard with a different character set, though.
> Ronny
/Bergie
--
-- Henri Bergius -- +358 40 525 1334 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
http://www.iki.fi/Henri.Bergius
--
This is The Midgard Project's mailing list. For more information,
please visit the project's web site at http://www.midgard-project.org
To unsubscribe the list, send an empty email message to address
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
