I think I was mistaken about the intent of this meeting. This is probably better served for the dev-list.
Liam > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Whalen, Liam > Sent: September 20, 2011 12:26 > To: Evergreen Development Discussion List > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Scheduled: Evergreen Community > IRC MeetingforFriday Sept 23 > > > The agenda has begun at > > http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community:meetin > > gs:2011-09-23 > > - please feel free to add additional agenda items as needed for > > discussion. Also, it would be great if committee groups > would edit to > > include links to group reports in advance of the meeting. > > I cannot make the IRC chats. Could someone bring up the use > of encodeURIComponent() and decodeURIComponent as opposed to > escape() and unescape() to parse URLs? encodeURIComponent() > and decodeURIComponent preserve UTF-8 characters while escape > and unescape do not. A quick 'grep -re "escape(" * | wc -l' > in the /Evergreen-ILS-2.0.8/Open-ILS directory brings up 394 > occurrences of escape() and unescape(). I imagine many of > them do not deal with UTF-8 characters, but it might be a > good idea to replace them all any way. > > This website > (http://www.dangrossman.info/2007/05/25/handling-utf-8-in-java > script-php-and-non-utf8-databases/) suggests using code like this: > > if (encodeURIComponent) { > string = encodeURIComponent(string); } else { > string = escape(string); > } > > in order to allow the ILS to work with older browsers. > > Liam > > Natural Resources Canada Library / Bibliothèque de Ressources > naturelles Canada > 615 rue Booth Street, 121, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0E9 > Telephone / Téléphone : 613-995-4180 [email protected] > Web: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/library/ >
