I uploaded 2 intermediate versions for p.mapper 1 and 2.
http://www.pmapper.de/dl/pmapper1_2005-11-06.zip
http://www.pmapper.de/dl/pmapper2_2005-11-06.zip
Both should now have less problems with multi-language settings and
character sets. I noticed that with Mozilla browsers and some server
settings the special characters were not displayed correctly (a '?' was
displayed). The reason seems to be related to Mozilla that cannot well
guess the character set.
So for version 1 and already existing applications it would be
sufficient to add a line in common.php that specifies the character set,
like
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1");
or
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");
(if your language files are UTF encoded)
I updated pmapper 1 to specify that in the config.ini (the same for
pmapper 2, but there the definition of the charset has to done in
various files).
When I made some tests I realized that the SQLite database I prefer for
the multilanguage settings ('localedb.db') unfortunately does not
correctly implement UTF-8. So if you are using anything else than
character set ISO-8859-1 you should stay at the file-based solution, now
with locale files like 'language_it.php'. In any case I would recommend
using UTF-8 where ISO-8859-1 is not sufficient. Text editors more likely
support UTF than other ISO sets. 'Scite' eg. is a good editor for UTF.
There were some significant changes in parts of pm 1 in order to have
version 1 and 2 better synchronized. The changes will apply to the
planned release 1.1.0. They mainly tackle
* language settings: definitions of language strings moved out of
the map file, everything is handled via the '_()' function
* initialization of various settings modified and now like in pm2
* facilitated attribute search definition, like in pm2
* functionality to re-size the map window
* a preliminary test for including WMS layers from the client
* an easier solution to specify extent buffers for point layers
(in the config.ini)
A list of modified files is in the changelog.txt.
I hope the modifications did not add too many new bugs :-)
Armin
