I'd would do the entire site. UTF-8 has a base of standard ASCII so all english characters would still render correctly even if the visitor does not have UTF-8 installed on their system. They would lose the non-ASCII characters, but if they don't have UTF-8 it's doubtful they have the fonts for non-ASCII characters anyway.
google.com is UTF-8, if it's good enough for google.... :) As for MySQL - you don't appear to be using it, as otherwise we'd all have to have MySQL databases... :) -Karl On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:58:09PM +0200, WebGate dv6 wrote: > Since you use php I guess you probably use MySql. > The default MySql Charest is latin. > For properly work with UTF-8 pages should be set to UTF-8 as well. > The MySql encoding change procedure not so trivial ,so if you have Hebrew , > China or other not English data in the MySql it can become harmful. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mirrors-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:mirrors-boun...@open-mpi.org] On > Behalf Of Jeff Squyres > Sent: יום ה 18 פברואר 2010 15:40 > To: List for Open MPI web mirror site administrators > Subject: Re: [Mirrors] Webgate.il admins... > > On Feb 18, 2010, at 8:25 AM, Karl Vollmer wrote: > > > My personaly opinion is UTF-8. The sooner we get everyone using it, the > > sooner we don't have these annoying charset issues :( > > For the whole OMPI site, or just that page? > > I assume you're saying for the whole site, right? Is there any *harm* in > switching the whole OMPI site to UTF-8? (again, forgive my ignorance of > this stuff... I dabble in PHP, but I'm a far cry from a professional web > developer/admin. Network middleware is my real forte :-) ) > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > _______________________________________________ > mirrors mailing list > mirr...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mirrors > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 4876 (20100218) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 4876 (20100218) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > mirrors mailing list > mirr...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mirrors >
